Pastoral Resources

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.

November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.