Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
If a book isn’t at least somewhat polarizing, it didn’t say anything of value. [Blog entry - November 1, 2014]
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
