If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.
There's nothing sacred about the book you've written. The Bible says there's safety in a multitude of counselors. The movie is the movie, and the book is the book. They're different critters, and each must stand on their own merits.
My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.
I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a book in 1899 called 'The Philadelphia Negro'. It was this wonderful combination of clear statistical data and ethnographic data.
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.
You don't write a book to show off.
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
I've always been really hard on myself. If I didn't book a job, I would cry.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.
I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.
I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
Reading is a lot like eating for me: If I try to read a book I'm not hungry for, I won't enjoy it, but if I wait until I have a real appetite for something, I'll devour it.
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.
Why buy a book when you can join a library.
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind of the person who was plotting vengeance.
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'
