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People do judge books by their covers, and the magazine editors deciding whether to include your book on their pages are working in a visual medium. So if you're less than thrilled by the cover your publisher proposes, don't be afraid to ask for an alternate version. Odds are that they want you to be happy with the final product, anyway.

~Camille Perri

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I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune. I wanted to write a pretty standard romantic comedy where nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets sick.

~Camille Perri

Topics: About Book Comedy Dies Falling Falling In Love Gets Horrible Hurt Involved Love Misfortune Nobody Pretty Romantic Romantic Comedy Sick Some Standard Tragedy Two Wanted Where Women Write

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When I wrote 'The Assistants,' I knew very much that I wanted to write about income inequality and student loan debt and the gender wage gap, but I wanted to put it in a really slick, fun package. That book ended up being described as a socially conscious novel in chick-lit clothing.

~Camille Perri

Topics: About Assistants Being Book Clothing Conscious Debt Ended Fun Gap Gender Income Income Inequality Inequality Knew Loan Much Novel Package Put Really Slick Socially Student Up Very Wage Wanted Write Wrote

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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'

~Campbell Brown

Topics: About American Book Both Brought Campaigns Charter Charter Schools Cities Founders His Many New New Book Parallel Phenomenon Revolution Richard Schools Top Traces Well

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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

~Candace Bushnell

Topics: Adorable Alike Alter Anything Book Carrie Ego Funny Girl Jessica Life Look People Real Real Life Sarah Say She Sound Very Well

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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

~Candace Bushnell

Topics: Asked Beginnings Book Children Determined Division Doing Incredibly Little Me Novels Sent Series She Short Short Stories Simon Stories Write Wrote

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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

~Candace Camp

Topics: Always Become Book Characters Enjoy Favorites Focal Good Great Intriguing May Me Mystery Plot Point Reading Real Whether Writing

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'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and in each of the three books, a small village church in the Cotswolds plays a significant role.

~Candace Camp

Topics: Book Books Church Each Final Legend Marrying Plays Role Season Series Significant Small Three Village

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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

~Candice Bergen

Topics: Appreciated Become Being Book Faster Friend Going Increasingly Me Moment Much Never Obsession Older Part Quiet Sweeter Think Time I Think

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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

~Candice Millard

Topics: Adventure Amazon Began Book Courage Descent Doubt Exploration Extraordinary First River Roosevelt Story Tale Tells Theodore Thought Which Work

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