Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
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For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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I guess a lot of comic-book adaptations strive for realism. Christopher Nolan is making Batman seem very real and very serious.
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
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We were on a joyride, on free energy almost. ... It seems to me we need something like the Manhattan Project. We need some urgency saying, 'Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.'
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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
