Pastoral Resources

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his 'death,' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

I don't read books.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.