I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door." ( : CCXVII, March 31, 1945)
[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.
My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.
I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.
It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
