Quotes About Books

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

Controversy sells books.

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

I do not remember any questions in my childhood other than questions about death and about loss, and it was clear that the books that filled the house were not as interesting as the conversations outside.

I've always been a great collector and lover of cookbooks.

I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.

Our shelves are groaning with the amount of cookbooks, it's scary.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

Sometimes people who sell books are seen as corporate salesmen, and people who sell reading are seen as literacy advocates, but you can't really separate the two.

I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.

I'm a big fan of Myron Mixon. I've read a couple of his books, and I've learned the little bit that I know about barbecue from those books.

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.

I used to write reviews for 'Artbomb.' Our policy was to only cover books we loved and recommended.

I have to read once a day, or I become cranky.

I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.