I make love like a flamethrower would make a good ice machine. But that’s OK, because I like ice water.
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.
Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones.
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
Put some action on your good intentions!
So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.
Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
I'm not one of those people that goes into the movies that are based off of books going, 'I know what this is really about.' I want to go and have a good time.
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.
