- 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
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.
- Great Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
- Grander
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
- Comic Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a comic book fan.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020