Books Quotes
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I love books.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
