Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other than a cyclic volume, a circular one. A book whose last page was identical with the first, a book which had the poss...
Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have a list of 100 birthdays to see. No need to write them down, they're simply 50 through 150. Another list of mine is 100 people to meet before I die wh...
Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils alway...
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never t...
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between ...
Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.
To write a book is to risk being shot at in public.
Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
Many, many people can write books. I just happen to be one of them.
I can write a book in probably three months.
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
I have a lot of books I want to write.
Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.
