Anthony Doerr Quotes
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
Anthony Doerr
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix
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.'
Taylor Sheridan
I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
Francesca Annis
There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
J. B. Smoove
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
Karin Slaughter
I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
Jackie Collins
Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
Garrett Hedlund
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
Barry Schwartz
A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
M. J. Rose
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater
The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
Carine Roitfeld
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Kate Thompson
I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
Gale Anne Hurd
Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.
Mark V. Hurd
There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.
Constance Wu
Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.
Jayne Meadows
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
Anthony Doerr
