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Book Quotes
Why books work the way they do.
This page highlights what books can do that film can't, including slower pacing and quiet stretches, alongside a reminder that some things simply translate poorly to screen. For a companion collection, see Books.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
- Review
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.
- Muse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about it in the book and, you know, explain that. But that was the technicality that actually got my sentence reduced - that Alan Dershowitz used to have my sentence - it came down eventually to eight years.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020