- Love
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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
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
- Frail
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
- Centers
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- Nov 07, 2020
My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
- Fishing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.'
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.
- Great Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developing a new designer colouring book with Laurence King has been a real passion project of mine.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book, 'Contest,' had a guy fighting aliens in the New York Public Library. The second book, 'Ice Station,' and 'Temple' were present-day military thrillers.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.
- Comic
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- Nov 07, 2020