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“Not getting girls is the story of my life. I have always had a bit of a tough time with the ladies. I don't know whether it's that I don't have game or just don't feel comfortable in my own skin, but females pick up on that.”

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Author:Josh Peck

“The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.”

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Author:Jonathan Stroud

“I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.”

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Author:Max Landis

“Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.”

Book Stories Picks

Book:All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)

Source: All That Glitters (Geek Girl, Book 4)

“The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up to. And it's fun for readers to spot a familiar face, or pick up on a made-up book title or something from an earlier story. I don't know that it does -- or even should -- contribute to the story in hand being any better than it would have been without it.”

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Author:Charles de Lint

“For a fiction writer, a storyteller, the world is full of stories, and when a story is there, it's there, and you just reach up and pick it.”

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Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

“We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.”

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Author:Kevin J. Anderson

“As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a love disorder of one sort or another, and each has a story to tell - of love lost or denied, love twisted or betrayed, love perverted or shackled to violence. Broken attachments litter the office floors like pick-up sticks. People appear with frayed seams and spilling pockets.”

Source: A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses

“Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.”

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Author:Kate Beaton

“If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.”

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Author:George Saunders