As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.
I used to write books and plays in my mind, but I doubt that any of them would have been above the level of the cheapest dime novel.
I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.
There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.
Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
I've always had a soft spot for comic books.
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.
I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
