I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Patti Smith
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh... →
Roger Craig Smith
All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date... →
Russell Smith
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is... →
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to... →
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is... →
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that... →
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover... →