I'm the world 'Guinness Book of Records' holder of 1,749 hugs in one hour. My arms fell off.
Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
I would hate to die for a lot of reasons. But mostly because of all the books I haven't yet read.
Reading a fantasy book is a commitment...a commitment to adventure...a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits...of epicness.
