The 'Stephanie Plums' are very much Jersey books. So you can't get away from attitude and objectionable language.
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
I didn't go to school a full year until I was 11 or 12, so I lived in books. I really was an observer of life.
I love to both give and receive very old books.
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volumes around the house.
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.
