Quotes by Richard Curtis - Page 1

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Book
Faster
Writing
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Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Zero
Ground Zero
Presses
Publishers
Except
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The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Free Speech
Great Things
Internet
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We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Heaven
Humility
Ideas
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You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Running
Agency
Publishers
Remember
Addition
Literary
Publisher
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We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Agency
Hot
Usual
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We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Agency
Gloves
Mail
Mask
Target
Literary
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No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Likes
People
Profound
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I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Men
Cat
Horse
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You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Government
Illegal
Law
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Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Quality
Technology
Accepted
Assurance
Implementing
Proven
Risk
Across
Applicable
Internationally
Reduce
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Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Bombs
Bullets
Causes
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The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors' Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Agents
Association
Canon
Ethics
Keys
Representatives
Screens
Agent
Authors
Factor
Member
Requires
Uphold
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We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Contracts
Publishers
Electronic
Forced
Include
Major
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The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Anxiety
Calamity
Depressing
Publishers
Real
Uncertainty
Depressed
Effect
Emotions
Restricted
Spirits
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It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Afghanistan
Keys
Mistake
Moving
Proven
Writers
Quickly
Submissions
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I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Believe
Book
Candor
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I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Book
Selling
Traditional
Turns
Directly
Originally
Published
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It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Average
Believe
Eye
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I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Book
People
Want
Few People
Send
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Bob Geldof feels the big picture all the time, even in the smallest argument when someone's saying, 'Well, no, you've got to have three staples in the program, not just two,' Bob feels people dying somewhere.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Compassion
People
Two
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I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Book
Copyright
Media
Selling
Writing
Author
Editorial
Hire
No Control
Text
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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Exception
Publishers
Track
Track Record
However
Rule
Sold
Sum
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You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Crush
Forever
Mistake
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Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Character
Eye
Stars
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It's impossible to overvalue the importance of television - both in its serious and less serious functions. It's one of our most important ways of finding out the truth - and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It's also an immense bringer of joy - I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows - they actually make us HAPPY
Richard Curtis / Screenwriter
Children
Laughing
Tv Shows
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