- 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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has a book where, ever since I started playing games... he wrote down the games that I played in. And then, when I did my website, we thought that was a really good idea, that people can keep track of my games.
- Damn Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Desert Spear' was exploration of the other. 'Daylight War' was relationships. Some of this is intentional, and some of it evolves naturally. The series as a whole is obviously something I have given a lot of thought to, but each book is its own animal as well.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was heavily influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien, George R. R. Martin, C. S. Friedman, Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, R. A. Salvatore, and James Clavell to name a few, but of course every book I've ever read, whether I liked it or not, has had an influence... I think I am constantly evolving as a writer, but not to mimic anyone else or mainstream trends.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne ,' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
No book of mine is complete without a dog.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020