I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
