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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
- Mindset
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read the books, because unfortunately, I'm not a big book reader. I do read a lot of scripts and I read the script and I loved it. So, yeah, I'd love to be in 'The Hunger Games.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.
- Music
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In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was seven, my mom would come home every day, and I would have the phone book open to talent agencies, and I would have them highlighted.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.
- Nov 07, 2020
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020