Quotes About Books

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

With the advancement in e-reading technology, I was curious if it were possible for readers to be able to hear the actual songs while reading the book. I contacted Amazon and discussed the idea with their Kindle team, and they were very enthusiastic about it.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Sometimes people ask if my books have morals or lessons for readers, and I shudder at that thought. I always say that I have more questions than answers.

I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.

I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older.

It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.

For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.