Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet.
I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.
I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.
I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.
When I was in college, there were dollar movie nights. I went to see 'The Long Goodbye,' which was based on one of Chandler's books but was contemporary and set in Los Angeles in 1973. I loved the movie, which motivated me to read the book.
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.
I'm not over-enamored of complicated books, and wonder if it's more for the author's ego than anything else?
No one knows why books do well.
The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
I try to read a Kindle Single a week, but I'm getting bad at that. I usually have a few books on the go.
I read all the books for 'Twilight.'
In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.
I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read.
