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Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.


Franz Wright
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.


Brit Marling
Tags: Time Up Book
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I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.


Skitch Henderson
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My favorite movies are love stories.


Tom Savini
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'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.


Taylor Schilling
I think the book that really kind of woke me up a little bit when I was starting to write was 'Winesburg, Ohio' by Sherwood Anderson. I was in grad school at Brown, going for an M.A. in creative writing. Those stories seemed to me to be doing away with pretty writing.
Tom Drury
Tags: Me Think Really
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
Poppy Z. Brite
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I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.
Mike Birbiglia
Tags: People Think How
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I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.


Dylan O'Brien
Tags: Love I Love Book
I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.
Robin Williams
Tags: People Think Just
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
James Rollins
Tags: Time Think Would
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'
Lynda Barry
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'


Gabrielle Zevin
It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
Todd McFarlane
Tags: About Think More
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I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.


Jimmy Page
Tags: Think Were Could
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
Seymour Cray
Tags: You Never Doing
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
Tags: You Your Most
Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.
Holly Black
Tags: You Every Day
Ever since I was a little kid, I used to love doing the evil laugh: 'Mwahaha!' I could really do it! And there's a little bit of that inside everybody. Still, as a kid, it was like my favorite thing.
Tom Everett Scott
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.


Tallulah Bankhead
Tags: Me Like Even