My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Discovering the ‘impossible’ ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they’ll read my books.
I don’t care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?
If you like the book, you’ll hate the movie.
I’m the only kid in the world who doesn’t want an eighth Harry Potter book.
Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Adventure books are my personal favorites. ‘The Endurance,’ a story about Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctica expedition, or ‘Into Thin Air,’ Jon Krakauer’s personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can’t afford to go to school.
Don’t judge me by the cover, ’cause I’m a real good book.
I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.
I always loved books. I don’t remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.