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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Robertson Davies

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Robertson Davies

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks - maybe four or five of those a year - and that's what we do now.