Book Quotes
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My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
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I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool.
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Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.
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If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book to see the film. If you do need that, then that means that it's a failure. That is what I think.
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When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.
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It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
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You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, 'It could have been much better.'
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to follow the action with tenderness and interest, all passion spent. Rather than surrender to the story or the characters - as a good first reader ought - we can now look at how the book works, and instead of swooning over it like a besotted lover begin to appreciate its intricacy and craftmanship. Surprisingly, such dissection doesn't murder the experience. Just the opposite: Only then does a work of art fully live.
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Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.
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Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
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I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
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I don't take advances for my books.
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I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.
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I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
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I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not.
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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
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Me, I'm an encyclopedia. I'm not a very smart guy, but I'm an encyclopedia. You can ask me about anything you want. Probably I have the book; probably I have a first edition.
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People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.
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You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be something.
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Few Amazon punters will explore a book with the depth of an 800-word review.
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I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day.
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.
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When our true intentions are something other than providing help, such as getting a job done or beating someone in a game, we are most prone to falling into the traps described throughout this book.
