Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.
Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days...
We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.
In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,in books I see what is yet to come...All things decay and pass with time...all fame would fall victim to oblivionif God had not given mortal men the book...
... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise...
The book which I read by Stephen Hand, Freedy VS Jason, was incrediable. I also check out and the book Zodiac, again an incrediable story. The Stand by Stephen King was again on incrediable story, a l...
Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications
There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.
Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.
I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. O...
All the successful personalities had one common element, they all liked reading books.
If Fran Lebowitz and Ian Fleming had blessed the world with a love child it would have been author J. Fields Jr.
You're either reading a book or you're not.
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every single children's book in the place, she started wandering ro...
Across the Universe takes place entirely on a generation spaceship, and, aside from a brief introduction, is not on Earth at all. But obviously, something had to have been happening on Earth. Somethin...
It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.