Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.
I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home
The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.
Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them.
I've always loved children's books - it's not that I didn't like them, I just didn't think I wanted to do that. But then I suddenly realized I did.
School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.
My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.
I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
I've written books on advertising-cheque books.
Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.