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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers aren't short of ideas. You can read a book, and it sets off a chain of thought processes, so it becomes a response to other people's books.
- Put
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't not put humor in a book.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020