Pastoral Resources

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

I write books to find out about things.

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

The real war will never get in the books.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.