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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 wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

Quotes by Manika

Nov 07, 2020

I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn't sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of me wasn't sure if I would make it into a book. If it was going to be morbid, I wouldn't want to tell it.

Quotes by Manisha Koirala

Better
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Nov 07, 2020

When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always interested in reading the book, too.

Quotes by Mannie Fresh

Nov 07, 2020

I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and I have a book with me.

Quotes by Mannie Fresh

Nov 07, 2020

I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

Quotes by Malorie Blackman

Be Kind
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Nov 07, 2020

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Quotes by Malcolm Cowley

Nov 07, 2020

I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

Quotes by Mal Peet

Being
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Nov 07, 2020

After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

Quotes by Mal Peet

Best
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Nov 07, 2020

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

Hands
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Nov 07, 2020

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

Quotes by Madison Pettis

Picture
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Nov 07, 2020

Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

Him
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Nov 07, 2020

If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Quotes by Mae Whitman

Never
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Nov 07, 2020

When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks for itself, but also it's just the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is such an amazing story. I had never read the book before I auditioned.

Quotes by Madeline Brewer

Laugh
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Nov 07, 2020

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Quotes by Madeleine Albright

Nov 07, 2020

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

Quotes by Macaulay Culkin

Media
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Nov 07, 2020

I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of the major media paying attention, I'm not used to that.

Quotes by M. Stanton Evans

February
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Nov 07, 2020

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

Quotes by Ma Jian

Police
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Nov 07, 2020

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

Quotes by Ma Jian

One entry treats a great book as pure escapism, while another argues literature plays a real role in guiding how young people grow up. Explore further with Book Club or Bookstore.

Book Quotes

Why books work the way they do.

One entry treats a great book as pure escapism, while another argues literature plays a real role in guiding how young people grow up. Explore further with Book Club or Bookstore.

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