Books Quotes

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.

I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.

Study nature, not books.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.