I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to sa...
Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's own books - it does not matter whose or where. Simply to be among books, glancing at one here...
The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.
if what is true brings us sorrow, / if what sorrow brings is truth
You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial value. A good story rolls of the lot into the hands o...
If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information a...
I recommend anybody go to a bookstore, go down the self-help or new-age section, and just walk those aisles. See what book jumps out at you; there's a good chance it's a book you need in your life. That's basically how I find the books that I read.
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.
If I got a new heart with a heart transplant, I’d be forever grateful. Or at least grateful for the next 50 years or so.
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.
I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy a new Nicholas Sparks book.
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.
Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
