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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
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose your pacing or if you have pages of extraneous description, a kid's not going to do that. They will drop the book.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.
- Edward
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, my favorite picture book was 'Fletcher and Zenobia,' written by Edward Gorey and illustrated by Victoria Chess. It's long out of print now, but its mix of macabre humor and 1960s psychedelia made it a perfect children's book for the times.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My company, Against All Odds Productions, has done print on demand; we were the first to do a book with a CD-ROM in the early 1990s. We do custom covers. It's always fun to do something new.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
- Jungle
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- Nov 07, 2020