![. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-wrote-a-letter-to-thomas-pynchon-asking-can-i-have-your-permission-to-tr.jpg)
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I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. Carole Bouquet
book reading moving
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
book writing want
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
book shoes marketing
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information? Carol White
book heart telephones
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
book writing
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes
book reality thinking
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
book wife reason
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
book past years
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
yes-you-can innovation saying-yes
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can." Bill Gates
yes-you-can
Yes, you can learn a lot about women, from what they choose to wear. You can learn even more by what they choose to take off, and who they take it off for. Mary Alice
yes-you-can masters turns
With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it. Lou Reed
yes-you-can answers might
Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not. Henrik Ibsen
ideas mirrors want
I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself. Carol Vorderman
ideas people wrong-ideas
Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.
ideas new-orleans rebuilding
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? Carlos Mencia
ideas long people
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else. Carlos Ghosn
ideas perspective important
It is important to have a perspective then only through seeing the world is it possible to transcend ideas such as the Flyers, and other aberrant thought forms. With ruthlessness, cunning patience and sweetness, it can be cracked. Carlos Castaneda
ideas political independence
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. Carl Bernstein
ideas tables calculations
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! Carl Friedrich Gauss
ideas giving appetite
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed. C. S. Lewis
ideas savages would-be
If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.