- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Value
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are interested in writing, and often there's an unjustifiable sense of people to believe my talking to them for the book is going to accord them any sort of fame. Which it won't. At the same time, they can be more circumspect if they know they're on the record.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read 'Another Country' when I was in my early 20s, you know, as soon as I put the book down, my first thought was, 'I will never be able to write a book like this.' And my second thought was, 'I really want to try writing a book like this for the 21st century.'
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.
- Pilot
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young adults are honest readers. They won't stay with a book unless they have a reason, so it has to move along.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.
- Diversion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020