Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Hosea Ballou
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a... →
Melissa Bank
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it... →
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas... →
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story... →
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
Leslie Banks
I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go... →
Russell Banks
One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to... →