Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.
A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.
The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that the book will contain as it were the general structure of the universe. In the remaining books I relate the motions of the remaining stars, and all the spheres, to the mobility of the Earth, so that it can be thence established how far the motions and appearances of the remaining stars and spheres can be saved, if they are referred to the motions of the Earth.
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.
I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Books are not life, only its ashes.
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published
