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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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A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
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I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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- Nov 07, 2020