If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
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.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody read." [As quoted in (in , Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?'
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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.
My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.
You can't have too many books featuring people of color, just like you can't have too many books featuring white people.
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.
