books Quotes

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them.

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.