What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to... →
Lawrence Clark Powell
Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to... →
Michael K. Powell
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of... →
Richard Powers
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the... →
I can always track my career by the children - I started writing right after the 14-year-old was born, and sold my first book just in time to pay for... →
Heather Graham Pozzessere
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him on isometric paper. It was very... →
Rhianna Pratchett
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12... →
Terry Pratchett
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a... →
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file.... →