'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it.
1484Hi Goodreads. My first day. I read all of the time but I must promote my own 2 books - Vulnerabilia and Legacy. VULNERABILIA
I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
I read more books for research purposes, whether it's a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
