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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
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally, by proxy, qua human being, except that I know that would be a mistake.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.
- Nov 07, 2020
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
- Marine Corps
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just thought it made sense to call a book 'Not Garbage,' even though the majority of it was going to be the scraps from people's studios; like newspaper clippings, weird drawings and stuff they might not necessarily show as artists.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020