I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's ...
An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're a grown-up, it doesn't matter if the book gets published and lots of people get to read it, or if you make just one copy and you share that book with one friend.
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and place I want to draw upon. Having said that, every single book so far has offered me surprises en route, and these include mo...
People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have bl...
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I prob...
I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.
There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a l...
Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking at life. It is because I am too diffused. I have decided never...
Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren. The poet insists, language is a body of suffering and when you take up language you take up the suffering too. All my life I have been suffering for words. Words h...
Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you.
Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.
I want to write a book about shoes that’s full of footnotes.
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
If your looking to write a book, your creativity, originality and simplicity is what will distinguish you.
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
