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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
- Open Book
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I'm a pretty open book.
- Freedom
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Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
- Innocence
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Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
- Habit
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I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
- Brother
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I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.
- Poetry
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
- Know
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I didn't know much. It wasn't possible to buy a book about Nurmi, but I found out that in order to be faster over 10,000m, he ran 5,000m many times in training. And to be better at 5,000m, he ran 1,500m many times. And to be better at 1,500m, he ran four times 400m in training.
- Character
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Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
- Only
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Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.
- Flat Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers.
- People
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