Book Quotes
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
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A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
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I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.
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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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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
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I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
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If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
