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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
Neil Jordan

Heart, Hard, Find

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.
Neil Jordan

Writing, Same, Solitary

The beginning of Book Three is the last one that I drew, where V's conducting the 1812 overture.
David Lloyd

Last, Beginning, Three

I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
Augusten Burroughs

Great, Working, Keep

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs

Great, Happen, Write

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!
Hugh Grant

Truth, Writing, Done

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner

Truth, Human, Rejection

All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
Gayle King

Good, She, House

I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
James D. Watson

Good, Wanted, Write

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Antonia Fraser

Family, Start, Her

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser

Friendly, Glamorous, Clue

I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
Antonia Fraser

Hate, Made, Hair

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
Antonia Fraser

Change, History, Painful

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed, and two others I'm working on.
Corin Nemec

Poetry, Done, Two

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
William Safire

Subject, Dealing, Shape

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Paul Ricoeur

Best, Wisdom, Job

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
Emile Hirsch

Good, Car, Picture

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Ted Rall

Good, Great, Here

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
David Brin

Past, Political, Process

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
David Brin

Selfish, Enemy, Human

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
Christopher Hampton

Good, Film, Potential

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.
Nikki Reed

Character, Become, Able

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.
Genevieve Gorder

End, Writing, Next

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater

Away, Hands, Hold

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie Stiefvater

Work, End, Creativity

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
Maggie Stiefvater

Challenge, Wrong, Story

I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
Maggie Stiefvater

Important, Done, Film

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
Maggie Stiefvater

Turn, Horror, Please

I've never written a book before.
Keith Emerson

Before, Written

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
Richard Le Gallienne

Religion, History, Fear

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