"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."

Time, Order, Spirit, Understanding

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"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

Woody Allen, American Director

Time, Nature

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Time, Cause, Sleep, Wine

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

Time,

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Time, Future, Present, Philosophy

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Time, Childhood, Homesickness

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Time,

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Time, Choice, Priority, Life

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Time, Life, Existence, Flow

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Time, Decision, Live, Responsibility

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"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."

Life

"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."

Books

"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"

Horror

"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."

Books

"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."

Criticism

"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."

Health

"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."

Movies

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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"If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life."

"If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke."

"Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions."

"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."

"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."

"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"

"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."

"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."

"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."

"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."