I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little utopia.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

One of my movies was called ‚True Lies.‘ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it’s very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I think the F2 tyres are probably one of the hardest things to adapt to, harder than the Formula One Pirellis were to get used to.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Writers speak stench.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.