Book Quotes
Why books work the way they do.
This page highlights what books can do that film can't, including slower pacing and quiet stretches, alongside a reminder that some things simply translate poorly to screen. For a companion collection, see Books.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.
I personally am a 'discovery writer,' as we're termed, someone who plans the book by writing it and then revising the entire thing. When it comes to saga, this means writing large chunks of prose before any of it coalesces...
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can operate, if there's something I don't understand.
I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
I'm not a big crossover person, I'll be honest. I try to keep 'Hellcat' separate from the larger Marvel world because I want it to be a book anyone can read, not just a hardcore comics fan.
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose now-famous collection of 'Kinder- und Hausmarchen' ('Children's and Household Tales') was first published in 1812. The book was...
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
I was a kid who loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on. I didn't have one favorite book. I had lots of favorite books: 'The Borrowers' by Mary Norton, 'Paddington' by Michael Bond, 'A Little...
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
