- Love
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
- Hammerstein
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- Nov 07, 2020
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sent thousands of emails - the conversations in the book are just the success stories.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
- War
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020