Book Quotes
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Beware of the person of one book.
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I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.
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Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
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Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.
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For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
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The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.
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Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
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Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
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I feel I've got 10 books in me.
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining 1980.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.
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If you're flying with your children, it's best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.
