Quotes About Books

I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.

The point of doing TV is not to prove how clever you are, but to make other people realise how clever they are; and I think it's the same with books.

I collect books - a lot of books.

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

I've probably got about 300 books. I love collecting books.

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good.

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.

I've always loved the physical book and remain committed to it.

My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.

Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading.

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

I asked myself what it was that I wanted from writing and where my connection with books began, and the answer to that question was definitely in childhood, because that's where my connection with reading began.

Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.