- Hands
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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
My life is an open book.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.
- Hollywood
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film.
- Finished
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'
- Comic Strip
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020