I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
'The New 52,' I was really excited that new people got to jump in on books. In particular, on 'Aqua Man.'
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
Our successful stories die with us. If you are lucky enough, you go into the pages of history books where only few are interested to dig about you.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie.
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant.
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
