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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
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.
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In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about black boys as well.
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You need a community to succeed. In the back of every book is an acknowledgments page full of all the people it took to get that writer to the book you're holding.
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Any person that you would want to watch your movie or see your show or read your book, there's a million other things that they could be watching or reading or doing.
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I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.
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A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
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Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.
- My Life
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If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.
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I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.
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My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me.
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