I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.