- People
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- 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
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it.
- Eavesdrop
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
- Nov 07, 2020
As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with celebrity hot guys is they either get old or go off the grid. That's why a book is so much better... a hot guy can live in your imagination and stay hot forever!
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could say that any book that takes a position is not fair, unless you keep saying, 'On the one hand, on the other...' and take a great deal of trouble to present both sides. That kind of journalism tends not to be very interesting.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020