I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
I am not a fan of books.
I like books that are fat and full.
I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
There aren't any fences to the imagination, and so there shouldn't be any for books.
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Scandal sells books; fidelity does not.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
I'm a firm believer in reading actual books.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.
The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
