Nigel Dennis Quotes

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

I'm constantly busy.

What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.

I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine.

Books are finished.

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

I am not a fan of books.

I produced some very good work at 'New York' magazine.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Most books are three-thirds rubbish.

Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.

It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects, but unfortunately, the way that the business is, there's such a demand for new material on a consistent basis that it's nearly impossible to do that.

I'm not interested in running around from one shoot to another.

Getting books out into the world helps us all.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I want to write books.