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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
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
- Knowing
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My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.
- Next
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
- Figuring
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That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.
- Teen
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If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
- Me
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Don't be scared of me because you can't get around like I get around. You gotta have a blue book to follow me. I'm just not local.
- Love
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Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in love. There is something almost miraculous in that.
- Mystery
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I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
- Job
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