I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
The comforts come from my movie and television writing. It is unusual to live this well simply from books.
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.
Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
A book or an article is of readable quality only by the quantity of the words’ honesty; the rest of its content only makes it a bulky.
Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors.
My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.
The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.
I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.
As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
