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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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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite anything is always relative to the context of present time, place and mood. When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.
- Open Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I'm an open book.
- Football Games
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never know. What if my subsequent book series flops? I don't come from a wealthy background, so I'd be left with no choice. I'd have to go back into banking!
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself lucky that Sonu Nigam, Bikram Ghosh and Taufiq Quereshi came forward to create an original soundtrack to promote my book, something that hasn't been tried here before!
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is a musical country, so it would appear obvious to use our collective passion for music to promote a book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
- Reach
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not in the least eloquent or fluent with languages. My writing on social media is quite pedestrian. But even if it was near any acceptability, I would not be in a position to pen a script or a book.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020