Books Quotes

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

I don't read books.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.

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.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.