The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.
In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.
Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books aren't amoral, they are not infused with morals or a message, either, and kids like that.
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
I love comic books and I love anime.
Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays.
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.
In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.
One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.
There's no books out there articulating what the alt-right is. If they're such great philosophers, and they have such good ideas, and they're on the vanguard of intellectualism, where are their books? They don't have any.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonfiction books, and Roald Dahl.
One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'