Pastoral Resources

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is.

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.