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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.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
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Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
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