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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
- Great Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.
- Serious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying. Between every book, I think, 'Well now, it's time to get down to the serious stuff.'
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I’ve wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up with a human body, for a general audience for years.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 'The Lobster Kings,' I listened to a lot of Johnny Cash. And it makes its way into the book.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had not expected to ever be in a position to able to say, 'Hey, see the magazine with J. Lo on the cover? They reviewed my book inside.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020