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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
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overall, I'd say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at the point, frankly, where I'd rather deal with a misogynist with a copy of Tucker Max's book in his backpack over someone in sensitive emo-boy clothing, because both are misogynists, only the one with the backpack is more honest about just how scared of women he is.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my picture on the back of the book, they don't see someone who looks like their mother.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my writing process, there is one truth I have discovered after writing some twenty-plus books: Not every book is the same, but the middle of every book is where I really begin to question my choice of vocations. The beginning and end is usually fairly clear to me, but that middle just sucks the life right out of me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.
- Nov 07, 2020
In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020