- Living
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
- Good Writer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
- Nov 07, 2020
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
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- Nov 07, 2020