- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You meet people, and you realize that you can never judge a book by its cover.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a comic book fan, you know that any epic book, you would open it up - as a kid, I would just go through and look at who was fighting who. I'd stand there in the store for 15 minutes until the guy told me to buy the book or get out.
- Early Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
- Loyalty
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- Nov 07, 2020