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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
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read my book and my paper. I'm quite happy with my own company.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
- Fiction Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a page out of the U2 book. They've always had a universal approach. Nobody doubts they're Christian, but there's an open door for everybody in any faith to consume the music at any level.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
- Diversity
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- Nov 07, 2020