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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
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polar' is based on the first and a little bit on the second book and all the characters from those novels are in there. The story is based on the graphic novel, but when it came to the execution of the film I felt I couldn’t really make a movie without any dialogue.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.
- Enough
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I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first comic I read was a Spider-Man comic, and my introduction to it was through my family. My cousins are a lot older than me, and they've been huge comic book fans, from the jump.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020