Quotes About Books

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

There are no gatekeepers in children's literature. There are children who like what you write because it's funny.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.

I am a geek. I am always in books.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in your genre. You don't want to plagiarize, but you want to learn from that author.

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am!

It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.

I had no ghost writers for the books - I wrote every line myself.

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.

It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into a good book.

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

Always, always, always pass a good book along on to somebody else.

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.