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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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- Nov 07, 2020
The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.
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I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
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When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to other, more specialized works and to the primary source material.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am talking about politics, it is not about reading a book, theories on policies, but awareness on what is our right as a citizen of a democratic country.
- Financial Services
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too few people in my old field of financial services were ever brought to book for their part in the 2008 crash.
- Fine Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
- Be Careful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
- Museum
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- Nov 07, 2020
An art book is a museum without walls.
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