Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
Read much, but not many books.
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.