I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
No matter how many books you own, you can never own enough. Reading books is the best addiction anyone can have.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
