The problem with writing a book about bulimia is that whenever you go to the washroom, people think you're throwing up.
I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.
Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.
Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
I had the offer to write books plenty of times during the early stage of my career, and I always kind of just pushed back because it wasn't the right time.
If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.
David Mills: [Banging a book in frustration] Fuckin' Dante... poetry-writing faggot! Piece of shit, motherfucker!
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
