A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
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.
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she's building any house is, 'Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?'
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.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.
My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.
Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950s and have read it about 20 times since. It's possibly the best-constructed book in the English language.
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
