Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
I've read every one of Donald Goines' books. So as soon as I heard there was an opportunity for one of his novels to be turned into a movie, I jumped at the opportunity.
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.
Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.
