- Myself
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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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.
- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
- Pillow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on the couch, I usually have the TV on and my MacBook Air nearby. And sometimes, when my ADD is really kicking in, I have my iPad too. And my iPhone. And a magazine that I haven't gotten to. And a book under the pillow to my left.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020