I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had to be a reason I survived to tell this story.
If getting addicted to something is just wrong, then I don't want to be right when it comes to books and music !! Those are the two things that can set anything in the world right...
If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that's how it should be; we're not robots.
[On Jason Mashak's “I Was Trained to See Shadows”, in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it.
See Amazon's bio on don loedding and a review of his first book of short stories"The Search For the Bearded Clam" and read inside "Global Warming:The Iceman Cometh".
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
It is just as honorable. . .to dig in the dirt as to dig into books. The mind can do its best work only when th body has been developed equally well.
Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.
if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary
From my book "Lobisón"..."When the beast confronts you...you must stare it in the eyes...hold your ground...and take-it-down." Jackson Keller, Lobisón's protagonist.
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
