I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
My books didn't fit a marketing niche.
I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.
My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
To return to the books of my childhood is to yield to the strain of nostalgia that is curious about the self I once was.
I've tried digital planners and fancy planners and date books galore, but my tried and true is actually just a large spiral-bound notebook.
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
