With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
