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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.
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- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
- Revelation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a possibility that comic book movies are getting a tiny bit better on the one hand because they're no longer made by executives, who are, you know, ninety-year-old bald tailors with cigars, going, 'The kids love this!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.
- Aspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big publishers want someone they can send on the Jewish book circuit, somebody the old ladies can see marrying their granddaughters.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020