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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
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to keep reminding myself that, oh, yes, I wrote that book.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biographers... would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided... to flip the order.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
- Coffee Shops
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- Nov 07, 2020
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.
- Encyclopedia
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020