I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.
I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.
When I was at school, I loved maths and read lots of books and was horrified at the idea of having a boyfriend... I was probably a nerd, but then, it was a negative term.
I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Children's books deal in idealized worlds, so they're a document of how our notion of ideal worlds has changed over time.
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.
Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.
The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.
'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
