Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
Never Judge a Book by its Cover". This quote doesn't apply to books only, but also to people, places and everything else.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.
This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
You can't judge a book by it's cover but you can sure sell a bunch of books if you have a good one.
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
