I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the... →
Anne Tyler
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want... →
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to... →
Neil deGrasse Tyson
People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and... →
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method... →
Wendelin Van Draanen
I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far... →
Dries van Noten