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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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- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.
- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write and that's why I write. I don't think about how much the book will sell.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
- Outside
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I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was shocked that I even got the opportunity to audition for 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Meg Murry is a Caucasian girl in the book.
- Next
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He was wild about the book, and apoligized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so many years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha's advice to 'chop wood and carry water.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020