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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
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd go silent randomly and just kind of write down replies to people's questions in a book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
- Dull
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a door which opens, I hope, to take the reader deep into the book.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can always track my career by the children - I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my first book just in time to pay for the birth of the 12-year-old.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
- Great Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020