Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.
Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost
My goal is to encourage our little ones to make reading a habit. To enjoy picking up a book. So that the habit continues throughout life.
I have always been passionate about travelling. Credits to the books for they were invented. If not, I might not be able to reach my dream.
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights
This capacity to fold the completely weird into daily life, to make the aliens ourselves, is a quality I look for in a good, weird book.
Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.
The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.
You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.
When I am tired, I choose to drown in a billion dozens of words. Cause they always be my medicines. My books on a shelf.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.
Newly-born books are like birds… they shouldn’t be kicked out of the nest until they’re capable of flying. Wendy Anne Darling 5-1-15
