We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime..

I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book….

History is absolutely my thing..

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel..

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than p….

The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a certain kind ….

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell..

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right..

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up..

When you are in love- everything is romantic.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills..

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people..

All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you..

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to ….

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors..

I'd never been interested in the Kennedy assassination until '88, when I read Libra. And from that point, I went out and bought the existing Kennedy ….

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube..

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kin….

Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the deba….

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising..

You're not doing the scene exactly the way it is in the book [The Hunger Games], but the intention of the scene is there..