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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, 'I don't care! I've got kids!'
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.
- Jungle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Jungle Book' and all the classics growing up, but what I learned about this is that these Disney films are basically classic fables that have been told for thousands of years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.
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- Nov 07, 2020