- 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.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is pretty much an open book.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'Broken Destiny' series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
- Nov 07, 2020
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020