I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
Sean Lennon
The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me.... →
Donna Leon
People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit... →
Elmore Leonard
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
John Leonard
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
Jill Lepore
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new... →
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
Edward M. Lerner
The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need... →
Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of... →
Matthew Lesko