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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
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the death of a parent - without writing an entirely sad book.
- Columnist
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book, 'Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,' is a gay love story. It's also a story about friendship. Quite honestly, it's also probably a 320-page product placement for Oreos.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Simon' was always a word-of-mouth book. When it came out in 2015, I don't know that anybody thought that 'Simon' could be mainstream. Publisher Harper Collins loved it in-house, but it wasn't a lead title. Nobody is more surprised than me that it's a film. It's the little book that could.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can't please everybody with your book.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day.
- Foreign Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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- Nov 07, 2020