Book Quote by Lee Child Download Open image “It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.” — Lee Child ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Character Moving Tense
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of phrase, and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When you're doing a movie, it's finite - you have a trajectory of where your character's going, and you follow that. Then the storybook… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
Past is story, present is moment to act & future is ray of hope.Therefore dont lament for past to make present a spoil &… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end. — Frederic Tcheng Copy Share Image
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Reacher got to them on the plane. He put them out of action and stole their wallets.” “On the plane?” “He broke Lozano’s fingers… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“A maintenance dose. It would keep her asleep all night. It would keep her warm, and gentle, and relaxed, and at peace, and cradled,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“It had maroon paint and exposed brick and scarred wood, and a chalkboard menu about ninety percent full of things that don’t really belong… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“The Zip Code is about the size of Chicago. With five people. But hey, welcome to Wyoming.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it’s filled up with old stuff there ain’t no way… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
That should be your town motto. It's all I ever hear. Like: New Hampshire, Live Free or Die. It should be: Despair, You Need… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“OK, Finlay, let’s get it done,” I said. “I don’t have an address because I don’t live anywhere. Maybe one day I’ll live somewhere… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
