With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.
Robert Gottlieb
Related By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex... UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world. PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? T.C. BOYLE Rishte Aak Dhaage Se Baadhe Hote Hai Jiskee Door Kisi Ak Ke Hath Me Hotti Hai Aak khechata Hai ... ASHUTOSH CHAUDHARY Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defian... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the... JOE HILL The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the... E.M. FORSTER We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it. ERICA COOK The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it. IBNOULKHATIB YAHYA Why don't I just go against all reason, ignore past experiences and fall in love with you? AHMED MOSTAFA Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. DENNIS LEHANE This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhe... NICHOLAS SPARKS When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember i... JODI PICOULT In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nob... NANCY KRESS As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories... NICHOLAS SPARKS I sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d... CRAIG GROESCHEL Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break... STEVEN CUOCO You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK At least there is one book with which we all or few of us could have fun. DEYTH BANGER As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject&... BLAKE BAILEY I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been... JENNIFER ARMENTROUT When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER There are pieces of me, small pieces, still in love with a fiction. VICTORIA AVEYARD Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good! SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet." Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison.... KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses ... SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert.... LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. GRATEFUL DEAD The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne... F. CALVIN PARKER To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings—... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS Now, 'that sort of Bear' is of course a bear who wants to be flattered, and it is plain that ... FREDERICK C. CREWS In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhe... CHANNING TATUM I’m in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in. MORYAH DEMOTT I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved ... NINA DOBREV He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone a... DAVE GROHL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di... CHAIM POTOK I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An a... ARTHUR MILLER Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good. MINOR MYERS Oh precious Lord! Oh precious Lord! Thou know them all The thought of my mind An... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Live with a mission; act with passion. DEBASISH MRIDHA when you see the problem as a more of you and less of people, you will find a distinctive solution t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE In Love I find myself. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" ... CHRISTINE FEEHAN Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don... ELLIOT MABEUSE We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The L... LAUREN WEISBERGER when you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light. ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ... TAWNI O'DELL If you have nothing to give to people, give them gentle smile and (or) kind word!
Give them love; gi... NAS KIRIAKOS It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole. During an ambush, you're praying for everything a... WARREN ZINN The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW
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[Ger., D... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE This approval is another example of our agency's endeavor to counter rising health care costs by app... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB One of the most important decisions people can make about their health is the choice of foods they e... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB It expresses our concern that, over time, the labels became cluttered with a lot of information that... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better con... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until,... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect... JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. 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ROBERT KENNEDY The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. ROBERT KENNEDY Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in... ROBERT KENNEDY I do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because... ROBERT KENNEDY When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them s... ROBERT KENNEDY Those who challenge the law in one or another of its aspects weaken the whole legal structure of soc... ROBERT KENNEDY The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Commu... ROBERT KENNEDY There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousin... ROBERT KENNEDY It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their cour... ROBERT KENNEDY Now I can go back to being ruthless again. ROBERT KENNEDY The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking some... ROBERT KENNEDY We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, wh... ROBERT KENNEDY I can understand the Chinese Wall: it was built as a defense against marauders. But a wall such as t... ROBERT KENNEDY From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way o... ROBERT KENNEDY Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a ste... ROBERT KENNEDY In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can di... ROBERT KENNEDY We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic p... ROBERT KENNEDY But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as a... ROBERT KENNEDY The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving th... ROBERT KENNEDY The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental... ROBERT KENNEDY People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I sha... ROBERT KENNEDY The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever lan... ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ... ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ... ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec... ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th... ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi... ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl... ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno... ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive... ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth. ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ... ROBERT KENNEDY If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. ROBERT KENNEDY I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. ROBERT KENNEDY Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced. ROBERT KENNEDY