I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.
Narrator: [Narrator/Death] The only truth that I truly know is that I am haunted by humans.
Rosa Hubermann: This is the stupidest thing I've ever done. Hans Hubermann: Yes, and just look how happy you are.
[from trailer] Liesel Meminger: I can't lose someone else! Max Vandenburg: You've kept me alive, don't ever forget that.
Max Vandenburg: Where's my weather report? Max Vandenburg: [Liesel shows a snow ball] You're full of wonders.
Liesel Meminger: Franz Deutscher doesn't sound very smart. Rudy Steiner: He's the dumbest kid in school. But he shaves.
[from trailer] Hans Hubermann: I'm not such a good reader myself, you know. We'll have to help each other out.
Rosa Hubermann: What makes you think that you are good enough for my daughter? Rudy Steiner: I'm almost twelve?
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.
I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
Gru: [Explaining why the girls can't find their book "Three Little Kittens"] That book was accidentally destroyed maliciously...
Tevye: As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.
Book Lady: Okay, young man. That'll be twenty five cents. Lesra: 25 cent? Must not be much of a book.
[Outmaneuvering Rommel] Patton: [referring to Rommel's book, 'Infantry Attacks' or 'Infanterie greift an'] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!
[Book moves to intervene against some locals harassing the Amish] Eli Lapp: It's not our way. John Book: It's my way.
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
