The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.
You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!
If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
I am a big defender of 'Harry Potter,' and I think any book that gets kids to read are books that we should cherish, we should be thankful for them.
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.
