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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
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
- Curl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
- Nov 07, 2020
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
- Old-Fashioned
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.
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- Nov 07, 2020