Books Quotes

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

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.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

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.

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

I'd never have written the big books in London.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.