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- 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
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different.
- Perseverance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020