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		Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Emily Giffin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. J. Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Wilmore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Mann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orison Swett Marden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abdullah II of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. J. Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lamar Alexander 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rae Carson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Conroy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Otto Penzler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Power 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James McGreevey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kristen Stewart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm Cowley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Science fiction, in its purest form, for me, it works the best when it's being used as metaphor to look at something from a one-step-removed process, to give a little objectivity and insight into something that, if you were applying it on the face of it, we'd all be too close to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Noah Wyle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Galifianakis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Darcy, the heroine of 'Something Blue,' is quite shallow and opinionated. At one point, she commented that she dislikes 'gingers,' i.e., men with red hair. I received several emails from fiery redheads who said they were offended by 'my' comments. I had to remind them that it is fiction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Emily Giffin