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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
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was true to the book.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like, 'That's wrong, but it's really funny.' And I've always thought that she was kind of like a gold mine for parody because there's all these things that went wrong in her life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020