I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.
Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.
I thought. . . that we could at least talk about books.
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books.
I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.
It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is used examples - do what these people did. Another list of human stories is used as warnings - don't do what these people did. So if your story ever gets in one of these books, make sure they use it as an example, not a warning.