Book Quotes
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Better is a book than a well built house.
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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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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
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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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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'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
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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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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
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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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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.
