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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Go find something that you haven't done before. Don't do the same thing over and over again.
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You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
