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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.

A book becomes something else once it's dramatized.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

A book can be wonderful and powerful and accessible and artful all at the same time.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.