In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities presented by their substance and form.
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on this, as I set out to do.
We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Books marketing has moved from the review culture to a preview culture.
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.
I would always want printed books.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
