It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
I really try to focus on my books and readers.
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.
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.
I mainly buy books in my free time.
You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.
This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussions about the subject matter, and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books - I'm showing slides and talking about the work
No trilogy should have more than four books.
For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.