'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share what you know with the public.
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.
I was in the South of France. I saw a Brownie on a school trip. She was holding up a book. It said on the front 'rough guide'. I thought: 'Yeah' she's not a looker.
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.
Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.
