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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
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.
- Nov 07, 2020
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very lucky: not very many writers can say they genuinely like the film of their book. However, I do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing for the Internet, you have the analytics, and you know that people are bailing every second. But various people kept reminding me that once people have bought a book, they're in. You don't have to be selling them on every page.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I've written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there have always been male writers, female writers. As a reader, I never picked up a book and said, 'Oh, I can't read this - it's about a male,' and set it back down.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever you are, you will not write this book. I can tell you nothing. Do not call me again. Ever.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020