I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

Some of my favorite books to read are young adult books.

My favorite acting books are Stella Adler's 'The Art of Acting' and 'Sanford Meisner on Acting.'

Very seldom do I use white in my books.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Songs are more powerful than books.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

I don't like to write boring books.

My head was always in books.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.