When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.
Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.
Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.
Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
