Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.
But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?
The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.
I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for ou...
Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
