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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
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all make mistakes, nobody ever wrote a book saying ‘This is how you live your life.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was hard to write about my dad for the first book because I know how sensitive he is. I knew he wasn't going to take it as well as my mom, who can kind of roll with the punches and is used to having me tell her everything she has done wrong as a parent.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it when I wake up. I don't always do that, but I like to. I try to make sure it's a book and not my laptop. I also try not to get too excited about who might've been trying to contact me while I was asleep.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Baker Towers' is the book I've always known I would write, but it wasn't an easy book to do.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book led to another as I discovered other facets to my characters I wanted to investigate further.
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- Nov 07, 2020