Book Quotes
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I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.
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Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results.
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Living on silence,Living by the book.You get it to a scienceOf living on one good look.So put out all the firesAnd blow away the smoke.I'm getting pretty tiredOf living on hope.
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The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.
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I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.
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When I made the leap from category romance to larger single-title books, I was encouraged to make the book 'big,' and suspense was allowed. Over the years, I've been able to write the kind of books I love, with a balance of suspense and romance. How lucky am I?
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When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set up ready to print, I held it in plates for a year nearly, waiting to see what would come out of all this discussion.
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I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.
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One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
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I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
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When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way.
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I haven't yet written a book in a far-future utopia, where all bad things are eliminated, but it would be fun to do that one day and introduce some subversion.
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Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.
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I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
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I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted to end - the exact note - but I couldn't see how to get there. Sarah Murphy, my editor, asked the right questions to help me. I think of 'The Bear' as a hopeful book.
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I didn't like being a name attached to a book.
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'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.
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I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.
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I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.
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If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house.
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All books grow homilies by time; they are Temples, at once, and Landmarks.
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I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
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I believe that Fairport, in all its incarnations, has almost single-handedly been responsible for and has written the book on the history of the evolution of folk-rock in the UK. Over the years Ashley Hutchings, with his Albion Bands and Richard through his solo work have carried the torch to another level.
