Pastoral Resources

My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.

My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.