My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if your're writing fiction.
Honestly, I hate when in books, the guys changes the girl's life. Like, no. The girl needs to change her own life.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States, and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show.
