The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way..
A runway is like a shrink's couch; stuff just comes out..
My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all the books I haven't read yet..
Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan..
Chronicle Books is a wonderful book company. I love how everything represents who I am. The Diva Rules! is not an autobiography in the sense that I a….
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vivi….
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and ….
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room.
I don't expect success. I prepare for it..
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de….
Stay small and control it yourself..
At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's publi….
It's like kill or be killed, that's my thing basically..
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters….
Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love..
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we k….
I live to serve. except the part about living....
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality..
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting..
Words are where most change begins..
There is a direct parallel in the way that we speak, with natural variations of pitch and volume that give full meaning to our words. This is what is….