Book Quotes - Page 17

• It's good when someone comes to a book or a movie and interacts with it. It's the difference between an illustration and a painting. An illustration serves a specific purpose, and a painting is something you can immerse yourself in.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Illustration, Differences, Purpose

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teacher, School, Mean

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• The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Important, Worthless

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read stacks of books and also had the opportunity to travel to England to do more research.

  Julie Klassen

  Writing, Opportunity, Research

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• For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Crazy, Twilight, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Emotional, Thinking, Comedy

  "Salman Rushdie Goes Hollywood". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 23, 2013.

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• The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited.

  Lily Collins

  Real, Twilight, Mind

  "Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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• There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

  Donald Miller

  People, Letters, Normal

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• All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

  Donald Miller

  Pieces, Prose, Has Beens

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• I don't do a lot of foisting, because when it comes to books I don't really like to be foisted upon.

  Michael Chabon

  "Michael Chabon’s Nonfiction Picks". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

  Tony Burgess

  Believe, Should, Attacking

  Interview with Jonathan Ball, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

  Tony Burgess

  Writing, Happenings

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• I'm kind of interested in learning to learn and grow and challenge myself. I think I've been very fortunate in that my books are pretty different from one novel to the next. There's a lot of things that are similar but in terms of tone and the scale and how they interact with history and just the different styles as well.

  Joe Meno

  Thinking, Challenges, Style

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.

  Joe Meno

  Sex, Perspective, Males

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.gqindia.com

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• I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.

  Sarah Dessen

  Character, Thinking, Eight

  Interview with Adele Walsh, www.persnicketysnark.com. April 18, 2010.

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• Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Past, Always Trying

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• You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is going to be, whether it's contentious or not, it's going t bring up a huge, emotional response from people. A lot of people will say they are ready or they're not ready.

  Stephen Daldry

  Responsibility, Emotional, People

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• I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Writing, People

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• I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

  Donald Miller

  Art, War, Writing

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• Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

  Donald Miller

  Trying, Half, Picks

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• [To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Add

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.140, Melville House

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• I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Past, Names

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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