I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
Newly-born books are like birds… they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Every time I have a bad day, I'll just find a corner, bring out my book and then everything starts to feel better.
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future...
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
