- 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
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
- Good Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall never be in love - and I no longer wish to be.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to show the reader the essence of the book without giving anything away.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
- Itself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020