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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my music to be treated as a book or a movie. It's not about the one single: it's about the bigger picture.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily 'Diplomacy' by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried writing this book about a singer in a wedding band, but realized I only wanted to write the book so I could have an excuse to sing with a wedding band as research. That's not a good enough reason to write a book.
- Woman
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.
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- Nov 07, 2020