A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book.
Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.
I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.
Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
that the grace of fable stirs the mind"...and..."that the perusal of excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages
If you want to see and feel magic first hand, read a book to your kid before bedtime. —Richard Due
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
