Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Earth and sky woods and fields lakes and rivers the mountain and the sea are excellent schoolmasters and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development who love good music good books good pictures good plays good company good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually ultimately I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that they never translate exactly.

I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

The way I look at it movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Well it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000 when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

Even if we die at 100 we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me and I don't know what I would do without those things.

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses in stores it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared but they're not going to get hurt.

I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

When I was a boy I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I love the movies and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films they're not books they're not the theatre.