It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
People tend to find books when they are ready for them.
After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
Do you like manga?" she asked after a minute. "Anime?" "Anime's cool. I'm not really into it, but 1 like Japanese movies, animated or not. " "Well, I'm into it. I watch the shows, read the books, chat on the boards, and all that. But this girl I know, she's completely into it. She spends most of her allowance on the books and DVDs. She can recite dialogue from them. " She caught my gaze. "So would you say she belongs here?" "No. Most kids are that way about something, right? With me, it's movies. Like knowing who directed a sci-fi movie made before I was born.
Self-help books for those who believe 'You can have it all' often advise, 'Follow your bliss and money will follow. ' With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, 'When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss. '
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down. " In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.
Computers don't kill books; people do.
What did a person need to survive? Food. Water. Shelter. Warmth in cold weather. And something else. . . books.
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public Manuscript, that lies expans'd unto the eyes of all; those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better. ' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.
Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking.
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.
I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.
The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
