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 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..

Before the Olympics, there's always been a part of me that's wanted to write a book about Women's cycling because there isn't one out there and I thi….

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate….

The heart is the only book worth reading..

When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself. But it doesn't. And nor sho….