I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
The Book of Mormon is in absolute harmony from start to finish with other sacred scriptures. There is not a doctrine taught in it that does not harmonize with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.
I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.
I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet.
