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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

~George Orwell

Topics: About Books Constantly Exceptionally Exhausting Feeling Indiscriminate Inventing Involves Irritating Job Only Praising Prolonged Quite Reactions Reviewing Spontaneous Thankless Towards Trash Whatever Which

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Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

~George Packer

Topics: Books Brought Capitalism Century Changes Conflicts Demon Even Face Filled Hero Human Human Face Imagination Industrial Movies News Past Popular Public Putting Social Songs Stories Victim Whether While Worker

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When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.

~George Packer

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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: About Actually Being Better Books Events Flickering Hardly Life Like Lose Odd Part Place Real Real Life Remember Seems Sometimes Tend Than Them Thing Took Were Writer Writing You Your Yourself

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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Books Bores Characters Come Die Difficult Difficult Time Exactly Going How Know Live Me More Nothing Out Pages Read Surprise Than Time Turns Twists Two Want Where You

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One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

~George R. R. Martin

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I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Books Days Files Get Idea Never Stories Them Want Write

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The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Book Books Cares Copies Ever Finish Late Majority No One Cares Out Published Reviews Sells Then Two Vast Vast Majority Whether Writers

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I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Before Books Effect Fan Fantasy Had High High School Huge Huge Fan Junior Junior High Junior High School Like Loved Me None Other Profound Read School Them Those Tolkien

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The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Books Fantasy Had Modern Success Tolkien

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