I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear..

Stand up and finish what you started.

A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the bl….

Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves..

I educated myself, and it made me feel good. I went to museums. I read books. I did all the things, pretty much, that you would do in school. I would….

Kerry James Marshall especially was a huge influence on me in graduate school, as were Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. These artists are titans. My ….

Publishing a book is a great thing, and I'm grateful, but it's also a horrible, exposing thing. Once you've published a book, you never write quite a….

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing..

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque..

My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you're never around assholes. That's the two things to ….

I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There ….

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir,….

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the….

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't li….

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm r….

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books..

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad..

To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison..

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?.

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the mate….

It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch t….