Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flyi….

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a boo….

It seemed to me at an early age that all human communication - whether it's TV, movies, or books - begins with somebody wanting to tell a story. That….

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out..

Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Fille….

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English..

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive..

A story can only be contained in a book..

And nobody had told them that they were short on time..

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov..

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us..

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas..

The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this bo….

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen t….

Because for me to go fully experimental, it would turn into an artist book actually. And I'm not opposed to that. But I wanted to toy with the conven….

You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base..

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have ev….

I wondered what I would do if I didn't have my God to turn to and be able to read the Book He had divinely inspired..

Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island - the île d'Oléron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was of the utmost importance….

We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'N….