- One Thing
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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
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book is there for inspiration and as a foundation, the fundamentals on which to build.
- Dealers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing is a business. It's about squeezing every last dollar out of every available source, and the most vulnerable source is the author. No clearer proof of that exists than the 'standard' book contract.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal relationship with Ali began in 1988, when we met in New York to explore the possibility of my writing the book that ultimately became 'Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times.'
- One Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beware of the person of one book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The distinctions of what makes a book one genre or another can sometimes be a bit muddy, but generally it's a matter of projecting who the audience will be, which is a judgment that's based on the subject matter. 'Mainstream' is the cleanest label for a book that draws readers of both sexes and from a wide age-range.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for creating that world and putting it out there - having the confidence to go forward and do that and behave in a certain way.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cottage is on Lake Huron and it's always nice to have the chance to get away and hear the waves crashing while reading a good book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020