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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.
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- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
A cashmere knit is like a book. It is something to save and go back to time after time. It is the feeling of an embrace.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020