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I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

~David Dobkin

Topics: Around Because Book Commitment Films Generally Going Just Know Love Movie Much Never Out Page Reading Start Stop Time Too Too Much Turn Walk Will You

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I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

~David Douglas Duncan

Topics: Book Correspondent Did Korea War

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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

~David Duchovny

Topics: Always Be Humble Book Humble Know Learn Never Read Smart Somebody Twice Want You

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Trump started his foundation in 1987 to give away the proceeds from his book 'The Art of the Deal.' It has no paid employees and a board of five: Trump, three of his children, and a longtime Trump Organization employee. They all work a half-hour per week, according to the foundation's most recent Internal Revenue Service filing.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: According Art Away Board Book Children Deal Employee Employees Filing Five Foundation Give His Internal Most Organization Paid Per Proceeds Recent Revenue Service Started Three Trump Week Work

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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.

~David Farr

Topics: Back Book Find Found Say Screenwriter Skeleton Strip Trust Would You

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I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it.

~David Grann

Topics: About Book Could Film Many People Reach Realistic Wish I Wish

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One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.

~David Grann

Topics: About Almost Book End Half New New Yorker Nice Nice Things Sometimes Stories Things Up Write Yorker You

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Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.

~David Guterson

Topics: Almost Book Doing Emerge Even Insisting Intend Just Major May Out Places Players Set Though Write I May Not

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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

~David Guterson

Topics: Aware Being Book Challenged Did Expectation Fail Falter First Increased Inevitably Live Never Next Pleases Prior Promise Sense Simply Stage Successful Up Way Writers

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My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

~David Guterson

Topics: Book Counter Runs Spirit Traditional

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