Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
Yotam Ottolenghi
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the... →
Clive Owen
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
Helen Oyeyemi
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. Packer
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars' fiction that went... →
Jared Padalecki
Really, I don't like to do any household chores. There was a time when I loved to cook, but that was when I wasn't writing books.
Elaine Pagels
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia
One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk... →
Abraham Pais
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm... →
Chuck Palahniuk