Book Quotes
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I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
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I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.
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Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit. The new releases are always going to bolster the old releases.
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The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like a comic-book version of the film. And then we do our own dialogue and music and sound effects, all in an effort to be able to basically sit in the theater and watch the movie before we shoot it, essentially.
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I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
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Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
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Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years.
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I've heard rumors that the Petersons are writing a book. It will be very interesting to see what they have to say, but I don't know anything about the Rochas.
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
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My mouth ain't no prayer book.
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You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.
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I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
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When I get close to an election, I look to 'Lamar Alexander's Little Plaid Book' for inspiration.
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
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I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
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There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - 'Swan Song' is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my book will be incense burnt at the deathbed of this society, damned with the damnation of its own impotence.
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I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.
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As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book.
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If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.
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Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.
Colson Whitehead -
People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
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I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.
