You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book..

The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products..

If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe t….

I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth bo….

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!.

For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen r….

Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the….

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.

This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especial….

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take….

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that ….

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing..

A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack..

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it..

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director..

Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-scie….

Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with being brilliant and one of th….

For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous colle….

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event..

I read the first book about five times while I was preparing for the role. I really wanted to completely embody Lissa and, naturally the book gave me….

My agent came to me with a deal from another publisher and I signed a deal and got the advance with no idea of what I was going to do. I probably pro….