Book Quote by Tom Clancy Download Open image “Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,” — Tom Clancy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Children Daughter Giving Hollywood Our daughter Pimp Your daughter
Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Stop worrying. Hollywood wont turn your daughter into a nymphomaniac or get her hooked on drugs... I will. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is customary for the writer to sneer that Hollywood has traduced their book. Well, I adore my film. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
Can you blame star kids for that? If I'm somebody's daughter, and I'm being offered a film, why would I say no? — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same." — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want. — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
To the critics: You always complain that Hollywood never gives you new stuff, and then when you get it, you flip out. Lighten up. — Peter Farrelly Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, I wrote a book. People seemed to dig it, so I wrote another and one after that. That’s when Hollywood… — Hank Moody Copy Share Image
“The most important lesson that came out of Vietnam for me was that Marines take care of Marines.” — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Sunday was the normal day for the political awareness session at sea. Ordinarily Putin would have officiated, reading some Pravada editorials, followed by selected… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets. — Tom Clancy 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
