Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
You could be writing the book that changes your life.
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and – if you’re not careful – those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.
When I write my books, actually, I’m known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
Nothing will train you better as a writer than working on your next book.
It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books.
When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I’ll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I’m trying to increase my general understanding.
Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.
If you are anything like me – Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome – then you have undoubtedly read many books.
My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I’m quite prone to such bouts of deplorability – take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.
Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a ‘fantasy’ novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense. Rutabaga.
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don’t know how to read.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn’t want to move around very much.
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw a book with my name on it I almost passed out.
I just started reading lots of books and then called the United Nations and asked if they could educate me. The more I got involved, the more I suddenly began to feel useful as a human being and felt like I was finally living as I should be.
I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.