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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

Funny
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Nov 07, 2020

It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.

Quotes by Garrett Hedlund

Gift
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Nov 07, 2020

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

Quotes by Garrison Keillor

Enough
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

Quotes by Garry Wills

Nov 07, 2020

When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

Quotes by Gardner Dozois

I Can
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Nov 07, 2020

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

Quotes by Gale Anne Hurd

Language
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Nov 07, 2020

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Quotes by Galileo Galilei

Great Book
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Nov 07, 2020

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

Quotes by Galileo Galilei

Care
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Nov 07, 2020

I don't need every book to have female creators, I don't care if there are books that appeal mostly to guy readers. I don't care if some books have cheesecake. I am fine with all of that. It's the not allowing anything else that makes me furious.

Quotes by Gail Simone

Finishing
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Nov 07, 2020

When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

Quotes by Gail Tsukiyama

Like
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Nov 07, 2020

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

Quotes by Gabrielle Zevin

Nov 07, 2020

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Quotes by G. M. Trevelyan

Before
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Nov 07, 2020

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

Quotes by Gabby Douglas

Nov 07, 2020

I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

Quotes by Gabourey Sidibe

Family
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Nov 07, 2020

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.

Quotes by Gabourey Sidibe

Doing
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Nov 07, 2020

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Quotes by Frederik Pohl

God
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Nov 07, 2020

The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.

Quotes by Frederica Mathewes-Green

Only
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Nov 07, 2020

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

Quotes by Fred Kaplan

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

Back in the day, when we'd get into a town, I would go in the phone book and look up record stores. Then I'd take a bus or a cab and check them out.

Quotes by Fred Schneider

One entry treats a great book as pure escapism, while another argues literature plays a real role in guiding how young people grow up. Explore further with Book Club or Bookstore.

Book Quotes

Why books work the way they do.

One entry treats a great book as pure escapism, while another argues literature plays a real role in guiding how young people grow up. Explore further with Book Club or Bookstore.

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