I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
Melissa Marr
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a... →
Yann Martel
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through... →
George R. R. Martin
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician:... →
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it... →
I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.