#boo

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him. ↗

— Tom Felton

#because #books #character #defined #few

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#been #better #books #come #had

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. ↗

— Robert Caro

#absolute #absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #always

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too. ↗

— Tom Felton

#goosebumps #i #kid #too #used

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. ↗

— Robert Caro

#books #bug #easy #fool #go

If young children boo me, that makes my day. ↗

— Tom Felton

#children #day #makes #me #young

I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book. ↗

— Connie Willis

#first #good #hate #i #never

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#different #form #into #itself #medium

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. ↗