Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.
You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.
'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, centered on a legendary pre-Victorian casino and her four scandalous aristocratic owners.
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.
I like cooking but I don't know much and whenever I enter the kitchen, my mother sends me out! Because whenever I try a dish from a book, it comes out bad.
Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says “A Million Copies Sold,” did you ever wonder who bought them?
I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors.
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
'Star Wars' is something that I've been a fan of since I was a kid - I played all the video games and I grew up reading 'Star Wars' books.
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked, and could have only one book, what would it be? I always say, "How to Build a Boat.
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
