I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I….

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved..

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding..

To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information….

What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to sha….

I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my 30 books and I could continue the story on..

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes w….

Frequently, an author gets "orphaned" at a publisher. What this means is that an editor buys their book, then ends up getting fired, promoted, or tra….

Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning..

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they….

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught u….

Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature, that universal and public….

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it..

For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it m….

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross over and arrive on t….

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art..

Will loved to gallop..

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are….

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic..

The Rainbow Fish shared his scales left end right. And the more he gave away, the more delighted he became. When the water around him filled with gli….

The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom - so far….