The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
You write a book and it’s like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don’t know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn’t be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.
I should say that I’m not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it’s not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.
What are you doing with all those books anyway?” Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us,” said Hermione. When we’re looking for the Horcruxes.” Oh, of course,” said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. “I forgot we’ll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.
The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there.
Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.