Books Quotes

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.

What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

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