Book Quotes
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I will say I highly recommend, if you want to write a book also, have a child in the midst of that process because it will really force you to organize your time.
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I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.
Colson Whitehead
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On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.
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It's tough to stay married. My wife says no because she's tired then stays up and reads her book.
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I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.
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My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
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I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.
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There's so often - in filmmaking, you're backed into something that already has these set parameters, whether it's a sequel or a book that people love.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
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Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
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A breeze discovered my open book and began to flutter the leaves to look.
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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
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Being a student of Wuxia literature, I was aware 'Crouching Tiger' was book four in the 'Crane Iron Pentalogy.'
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There's a classic book by Albert Ellis called When AA Doesn't Work for You. It's in a field called harm reduction. You don't have to believe in God. You don't have to be abstinent. You do less harm the next time than you did the last time.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
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For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams . . . .
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.
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The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you don't have budget constraints; you can cast it yourself.
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I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
