Whenever you’re writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn’t excite me and didn’t even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books – that is the oddest experience in the world!
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the myths and legends in the books.
The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.
This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I’m writing. So, every book I write has its own “soundtrack.”
I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts.
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it’s luck.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It’s only $29.00 in hardcover.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you’ve been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books.