- Cooking
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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
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
- Coloring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for him to build a composition by first outlining figures and objects in black and then filling the interstices in a perfunctory manner that can put one in mind of a museum-shop coloring book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don't come in with nursery rhymes.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first black girl book I fell in love with was most likely 'Please, Puppy, Please' by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find writing extremely difficult. I usually have to drag myself to my desk, mainly because I doubt myself. And it's getting harder because I want to improve with every book.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020