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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
- Jeff Giles
#Fantasy
#Love
#Pure
#Up
#Want
Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
- Jeff Giles
#Build
#Cats
#Finally
#One Thing
#Reading
I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.
- Jeff Giles
#Amazing
#Curious
#Genre
#Hungry
#Try
I'm definitely interested in two questions: 'Is anybody ever really irredeemable?' and 'How much are we all prepared to do for each other?'
- Jeff Giles
#How
#Interested
#Questions
#Really
#Two
When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
- Jeff Giles
#Effort
#Junk
#Out
#Then
#Turn
I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.
- Jeff Giles
#Beautiful
#Humor
#Last
#Pain
#Unexpected
Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.
- Jeff Giles
#Clock
#Kiss
#Time
#Together
#Young
In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.
- Jeff Giles
#Because
#Miserable
#Only
#Rich
#She
Asking the director of 'The Lord of the Rings' to read my novel was exactly as terrifying as you'd think. I came this close to not doing it because I was so embarrassed. But he was so gracious about it.
- Jeff Giles
#Director
#Doing
#Embarrassed
#He
#Lord
I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
- Jeff Giles
#Life
#Me
#Romantic
#Story
#Try
Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
- Jeff Giles
#Great
#Leaving
#New
#Place
#Tough
There are all kinds of voices in YA, and they are realistic and unflinching.
- Jeff Giles
#Kinds
#Realistic
#Voices
#Ya
The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.
- Jeff Giles
#Category
#Changes
#Fast
#Pretty
#Ya
Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
- Jeff Giles
#Because
#Being
#Good
#Nervous
#Writer
My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.
- Jeff Giles
#Come
#Every
#Here
#Summer
#Would
Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.
- Jeff Giles
#Bad
#Boy
#Hell
#Life
#Rich
I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies over the years. When I was visiting the set of 'The Return of the King,' he let me be an extra so I could see filmmaking from a different perspective. I was a Rohan soldier.
- Jeff Giles
#King
#Me
#Movies
#Perspective
#See
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
- Jeff Giles
#About
#Gorgeous
#Got
#Made
#Sleepy
'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
- Jeff Giles
#Age
#Dialogue
#Funny
#Hell
#White
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