Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew that Lincoln had had something to say….

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother..

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized..

I didn't know the comic at all, which is really funny because I grew up here and I had friends who worked at all of the places. Like The Beguiling, w….

I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there..

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right..

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a gener….

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, writt….

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening..

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us..

Only one book is worth reading: the heart..

God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in t….

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russ….

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; th….

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the cha….

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and be….

It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mi….

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books..

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to..