Book Quotes
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I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.
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When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
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If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?
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Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
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What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?
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You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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I love a garden and a book.
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I didn't do too much. I came here to The Magic Castle and learned about magic. I read a book, but not his father's book. Sorry about that.
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
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My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.
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Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
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I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
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A lot of times, identifying with a character in a book or a movie makes me feel really vulnerable. Especially in books, it's like being able to see an amplified version of yourself, and it's very surreal.
