A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two d….

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer..

Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repe….

I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in t….

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know..

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space ar….

It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster..

You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue….

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen..

It's cool that you found somebody that you trust..

People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I don't change anything a….

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book..

This is much more than your typical thriller. Tim Johnston has written a book that makes Gone Girl seem gimmicky . . . Johnston is an excellent write….

Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest..

My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be edit….

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoint's and things of that sort. So, I'm an old fashioned s….

Own nothing, control everything..

The whole world makes comic book movies now..

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that….

Celebrities say the darnedest things..

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are….