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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
- People
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Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
- Pencil
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It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.
- Time
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I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
- College
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Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
- My Own
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I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
- Fake
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It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
- Everyone
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When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the list was a very dark week for me. Everyone knows that all I wanted was to be off that list.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.
- Exalted
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- Nov 07, 2020