You want books? We're in a library-books! The best weapons in the world! -Tenth Doctor
The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.
There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…
Books aren't just books they're a completely different world in the palm of your hands
Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.
I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'
I used to think of them as prolegomena for a book; now I would see a book as prolegomena for the notes.
I read 'Holes' in 10th grade, and I haven't read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.
The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.
