No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
[from trailer] Rudy Steiner: You're stealing books? Why? Liesel Meminger: When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.
Tevye: [to God] As the Good Book says, ev... [chuckles] Tevye: Why should I tell You what the Good Book says?
Paul Benjamin: If you're gonna die, what's more important, and good book or a good smoke? So he smoked his book.
I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct - the book. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the other versions, and I always do.
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential thing...
Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph pap...
I collect books - a lot of books.
It is over with; I am in the history books.
He that has long legs will go far.
Fools are like other folks as long as they are silent.
He waits long that waits for another man's death.
Eat with the devil but give him a long spoon.
Tired feet always say that the path is long.
If you wait long enough, it will be good weather.
