I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.
I really have lived in books. Books are friends. They are some of the friends that make you who you are.
I'm always frustrated when somebody makes a movie out of a book and they leave the book behind, or the heart of it.
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
