My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive.
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.
I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
We cannot learn men from books.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.