Book Quotes - Page 16

• I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, Reading, Thinking

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• The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

  Chelsea Handler

  Drama, Life Is, Whole

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• 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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• 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 have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

  Toni Morrison

  Finishing, Wonderful, Pleasure

  "Toni Morrison Knows All About the 'Little Drop of Poison' in Your Childhood". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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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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• While researching my first book, I discovered so many fascinating tidbits that I wanted to share them with readers to remind them that while the book was fiction, the situations were based on historical realities - some of which were pretty hard to believe.

  Julie Klassen

  Believe, Reality, Historical

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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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• I'm a huge fan of the series of books by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments. I'm a fan myself, so to be cast as the lead heroine is completely incredible.

  Lily Collins

  Fans, Incredibles, Instruments

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

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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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• I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school.

  Emily Browning

  Real, School, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Airplane, Rooms, Minutes

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• I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

  Morgan Freeman

  Sleep, Vacation, Relax

  "Mo People: Morgan Freeman. Morgan Magic". Interview with Alex Gorton, www.mandarinoriental.com.

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• If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Character, People

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• I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Successful, People

  Interview with Phillip Duncan, www.dvdtalk.com.

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• I change my keyboard between every book. I usually shop around. I'm very passionate about the physical feel of pressing the keys. It's got to have the right springiness. I tend to find the built-in keys very unsatisfying, the keys are low-profile and don't really do anything - I want it to feel like I'm typing.

  John Green

  Keys, Passionate, Want

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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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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• People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

  Emma Stone

  Stupid, People, Good Movie

  Source: collider.com

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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 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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