Book Quotes
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
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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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I spent my life in the library reading books.
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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
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You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
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I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.
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I ransack public libraries & find them full of sunk treasure.
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I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
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I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
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The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
