Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
All people, even secular people, are seeing books on the market like The End of History.
Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.