- 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
- Start
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
- Contract
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- Nov 07, 2020
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
For better or worse, we have to bridge this divide between developing cars that drive by the book and cars that drive how you and I drive.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020