I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing... →
Neil Gaiman
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was writing the book I was... →
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do... →
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people... →
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First... →
I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.
I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that... →
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of... →
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that... →
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all... →
Eduardo Galeano