I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.
I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
It might seem strange to start a book with av ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just dont know it at the time
People try to find out true love but they don't get success..Why ? Because they search it in life in peoples But its dwell in Books
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.
'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.
I booked 'Transformers' having no clue what I was doing. And then, all of a sudden, it was like: 'You've got to get your game together fast.' It sucks, but I'm trying.
'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November of 2003.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
