“In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.” WellsLittlesBookTogetherBitsTermPathInformationSourceSceneLittle BitYeahNarrativeNonfictionMultipleDescribing Author:Ben Mezrich
“I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.” IfsThinkingBookShowsDiesRecordsYeahCategoriesHostGuestsTalk Shows Author:Dick Cavett
“Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.” BookFilmLetting GoToolsYeahScripts Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books, you open The Flowers of Evil and begin to read. If it were written today, you'd be absolutely stupefied by the work. It's this incredible period where the work is timeless, ageless. So yeah, I just love all those guys. It's my deep passion in those great 19th century writers.” IfsBookStatesCharacterTodayGuyPassionEvilLiteratureWonderfulWrittenCenturyFlowerPeriodsYeahIncrediblesWorking ItTimeless19th CenturyAgelessFrench LiteratureBaudelaireDeep Passion Author:Johnny Depp
“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.” YearsBookDreamKidsWantedNovelHellChildhoodPositionSeriousDrawsYeahComicFinding YourselfAdolescenceComic BookGraphicCollectorsGraphic NovelsUnfulfilled DreamsHell Yeah Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.” WritingFirstsBookAmericaGuyYeahComicCaptainsComic BookMarvel Comics Author:Mickey Spillane
“Yeah I was aware of the book, but hadn't read it. So as soon as I'd finished the script, I got a copy of the book and read that. My wife had read it and she loves it, so that was a good sounding board. I like her writing style, she's such a page-turner. I enjoyed The Constant Princess as well. I think she's great. The books are very popular with women and I can see why.” ThinkingWritingWellsI CanBookWifeStylePagesYeahConstantScriptsMy WifeFinishedEnjoyedBoardsCopiesPrincessLike HerVery PopularTurnerWriting Style Author:Eric Bana
“I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.” ThinkingWayBookStoriesAgeYeahMindsetFearlessClassicCrucialFemininityClassic Book Author:Emma Donoghue
“To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in." I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.” FirstsSaidBookWholeRunningFilmFightingActorsComedyOkayYeahClubsDramaticUnderwear Author:Edward Norton
“The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.” PeopleWritingYearsLooksBookAgeLiteratureTalkingFourYeahCome UpInstanceComicFantasticAffectedComic BookLook At MeAghastFantastic Four Author:Walter Mosley
“It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."” KindBookStuffBornKnownRecordsOne ThingYeahCulinaryLazinessCheeseDishesSheerDistinguishedSaladEntrySignaturesHamburgersPopcorn Author:Paul Newman
“I feel like it's so, sort of representative of a generation. I mean everything that they talk about in the books are things that I get. Even like a lot of the Canadian references because I've worked in Canada a lot, so I totally know Sloan and I know, you know, all this stuff, and meeting Chris Murphy was really cool, and yeah, everything.” KnowsFeelsMeanBookStuffGenerationsYeahMeetingsCanadaRepresentativesReally CoolMurphy Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“Yeah, we've become really good friends. Our characters start dating in the book, and um, yeah, I think we - and we made up little back stories to our characters and little outtakes that we'd bring up to Edgar as a joke, and you know, kind of see different sides of stuff. So yeah, we have a really good time.” ThinkingKnowsKindLittlesMadeBookDifferentCharacterStoriesStuffSidesJokesDatingYeahGood TimesGood FriendDifferent SidesReally Good Friends Author:Johnny Simmons
“Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.” BookYeahGood BookPussy Author:Bo Burnham
“I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.” IfsBookDifferentWould BeArtistMy OwnQuietYeahWho I AmPerformersMy Own LifeCollectorsShopkeepers Author:Mos Def
“Yeah, and the language the "we" has, and the character the "we" has. Because that was the part of the book that I didn't plan out, but the part that I was most curious about as I was writing. You know what you're doing, but you're sometimes still sort of curious as you're writing it.” KnowsWritingStillsBookSometimesCharacterLanguagePlansYeahCurious Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.” IfsThinkingTryingBookBigsJobsGuyDealsProvePaperNewsMouthsYeahPhonesOne TimeTicketsGood NewsBig DealFuriousParking Author:Rob Huebel
“The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the book starts a few years before my birth until right about the end of junior high. And yes, I am contractually obliged to mention this as much as possible (each time I do, HarperCollins sends me a free pizza).” YearsBookEndsJobsDealsCuttingMaterialsBirthYeahObligedJuniorsBlogsPizzaJunior High Author:Jason Mulgrew
“Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.” WantImportantBookSeemsFeltStuffEmotionalYeahFinishedSillyPrintRelevantPetty Author:Bob Colacello
“It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being able to spend a little more time doing different things, so that's really great. Jay and I are writing a book this year which is really fun and so yeah, I am very excited to spend less crazy 12-hour days on set. Those were taxing times.” WritingYearsLittlesBookDifferentAbleFunHoursCrazyExcitingPressureYeahExcitedDifferent ThingsMore TimeReally GreatLooking ForwardWriting A Book Author:Mark Duplass
“This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially on the run. And so yeah, as I say, Barry Crump wrote a lot of books and this one got into the hands of Taika Watiti who then writing the screenplay decided to really vamp up if that's the word, or ramp up and modernize certain phrases - getting in the humor. So he added a lot of a real comedy perspective onto it which is what I think the story needed anyway, especially for it to turn into a film. And it worked.” IfsThinkingMenWritingBookRealStoriesHandsRunningFilmYoungCertainTurnsBoysComedyParticularPerspectiveNeededDecidedYeahPhrasesScreenplaysHeartwarmingRampOlder ManVamp Author:Rhys Darby
“I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that.” ThinkingWayKindBookSawsHugePercentHollywoodYeahDisappearComicMainstreamComic Book80sBack Again Author:Ryan Reynolds
“[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.” BookCharacterTalkingYeahLatinFlashReferringForensicsCsi Author:Tom Felton
“The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.” YearsFirstsMadeSaidBookWantedBlackPoorSawsMomPaperYeahSurpriseMy MomQueensPrincessFabricHalloweenCostumesOrangeWrapsCrepesHalloween Costume Author:Cassandra Peterson
“I had been doing private readings for ten years when my guides said, "We want you to reach more people." Then I said "How?" They said, "You're going to write a book." And I said, "Oh, yeah sure, I'm going to write a book. No way." But I did an outline. And I got pushed by my development circle.” PeopleWayWantWritingYearsSaidBookReadingDevelopmentTenYeahGuidesCirclesThey SaidOutlines Author:James Van Praagh
“Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and start feeling it out for themselves.” PeopleThinkingImportantBookFeelingsInspireOne DayPicksWake UpYeah Author:Maynard James Keenan
“Yeah, unfortunately [ films like Miss Julie are a dying breed]. And that is sad, because we need these. Like we need books, we need classical music, we need ballet, we need opera, to remind us really of who we are and why we are, and we need in movie houses - even to be in a movie - where you sit and see not only excitement and man-hero, woman-hero, you need quietly, just like that Hawking movie we talked about, to know how people overcome.” PeopleKnowsMenNeedsBookFilmHouseKnow HowDyingMissingHeroOvercomingYeahExcitementWho We AreBalletOperaClassical MusicMiss Julie Author:Liv Ullmann
“I met a woman who photographed celebrity dogs for a book, and she told me that Ralph Lauren's dog is named Rugby. I said, Yeah, but his real name is Stickball.” SaidBookRealNamesDogMetsYeahRugbyLauren Author:Bill Murray
“You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.” KnowsFeelsWritingLittlesStillsBookFeelingsBigsLanguageFeltVoiceYeahMovedLike MeEssaysGood Feeling Author:Bruce Springsteen
“A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."” PeopleWorldWantFeelsLooksBookIdeasCharacterStoriesEnjoySimpleFantasyInvolvedDirectOppositesTownsYeahAddDrawingSellingComicNarrativeMeatDishesComic BookCartoonViewersGlancesGet InvolvedSimplifyWant HimMain CharactersFantasy Worlds Author:Sergio Aragones
“You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSaidBookDiesLostInterestingOne ThingShameYeahInteresting BookWhat Did I Do Wrong Author:David Mamet
“Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!” SaidBookWholeAngelYeahEightMilesGradesChaptersTextbooksBanned Author:Lauren Kate
“So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?” PeopleWayWritingYearsStillsBookDoneSchoolPoliticalSocialStuffParentLaughingCouplePaperNewsDrawsBiggerYeahProfoundAcceptedFeaturesSatireImpressedCartoonMaking People LaughCirculationPolitical CartoonsWisteria Author:Elizabeth Chandler
“He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.” BookWalksFireAirNeededYeahWoodsSunshineGood BookFresh AirWalk In The Woods Book:Fair Game Source: Fair Game
“Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.” IfsWantBookSelfHelpingChoicesGirlModernSubjectsSelf HelpMomYeahMy MomGuidesTeensConfusingCastingKill MeRight ChoicesSelf Help BooksBeautiful CreaturesHelp Book Author:Kami Garcia
“TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned to speak Spanish??? TooDamn-Funky: Yeah! u go for 2 weeks talk nothing but Spanish u come back fluent. Kicker5535: ...???? TooDamn-Funky: Well this is like a guy immersion program! Kicker5525: So...what. I'm going 2 b fluent in GUY? TooDamn-Funky: Exactly! u will c what they talk about alone. U will c how they r with each other. U will c how they THINK!! AND WHEN IT'S DONE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE A GUY GUIDE BOOK!! Kicker5525: U r deranged.” ThinkingWritingYearsWellsBookDoneAbleLastsGuySpeakWeekMembersProgramYeahGuidesLast YearVenezuelaBrosFunkyFluentImmersionDeranged Author:Kate Brian
“I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.” BookAdventureTravelPagesYeahFunny Travel Author:Frank Oz
“Al Gore announced he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment. Yeah, the first chapter talks about how you shouldn't chop down trees to make a book that no one will read.” FirstsBookEnvironmentTreeYeahGlobal WarmingAlsChaptersGoreFinishingNew BooksFinishing Up Author:Conan O'Brien