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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.
- Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually imagined 'Thunderbolts' as a straight-up comedy book in a lot of ways, like a very dark comedy book, whereas 'Red Lanterns' is more of a cosmic saga that has some jokes every once in a while.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020