Almost any poll of regular churchgoers will reveal that their favorite book in the New Testament is the Gospel of John. It is the book that is most often used at Christian funerals.
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.
Max Vandenburg: I'm not lost to you, Liesel. You'll always be able to find me in your words. That's where I'll live on.
Max Vandenburg: Tell me, where do you get these words? Liesel Meminger: It's a secret. Max Vandenburg: Who would I tell?
Narrator: While ten thousand souls hid their heads in fear and trembled, one jew thanked God for the stars that blessed his eyes.
Death: The bombs were falling thicker now. It's probably fair to say that no one was able to serve the Führer as loyally as me.
Rosa Hubermann: [cleaning her skinned hands] You're too much like your father. you know that? Liesel Meminger: What's wrong with that?
Rosa Hubermann: [while feeding Max soup] Well, at least someone appreciates my cooking. [a second later, Max throws up the soup]
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
