A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people’s heads. Books are good that way.
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don’t really care what it takes to produce that.
Agnes was the worst prophet that’s ever existed. Because she was always right. That’s why the book never sold.
Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.
I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist – books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.
I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
You need more than a beginning if you’re going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you’ve written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.
The ideas aren’t that important. Really they aren’t. Everyone’s got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.
Give a kid a book, and you change the world. In a way, even the universe.
People generally don’t recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That’s not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.
Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I’ve read has taught me something.
Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.
I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.