I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
The books I've written the fastest were the best reviewed and sold the best.
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
One of my favorite books is 'Armadillo Rodeo', and I got the idea from traveling to Texas and seeing armadillos.
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.'
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.
I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.
My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
I've read, like, 10,000 self-help books.
My books are all fantastically sentimental.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.
