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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.
The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
Stop being childish. Use your time better - better yourself. Read a book, or do a workout exercise on YouTube.
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
Seriously, just buy the [expletive deleted] book. I promise you'll like it. Unless you're [expletive deleted].
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas
I think it's true to say that in 1973 I could read every book of poems that was published in a year, and I did.
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books.
The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.
Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.
I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.
If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.
A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.
I don’t think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
A long time ago, I had an idea to make a book for preschoolers who had older siblings who were going to school.