I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
...I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book....
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.
The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.
