Books Quotes
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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Great books are rare.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.
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I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
