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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Books and marriage go ill together.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

It is over with; I am in the history books.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.