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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
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like we have so much to add to this book called the American Dream, and I want to add our chapter to it. I want to talk about what it means to be brown American and this concept of what I feel is the New Brown America.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
- Cricket
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- Nov 07, 2020
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020