Larry Wall Quotes

What I think of sometimes, as I read the new books - do kids really need to see such a seamy side of life? I'm in the minority, such an old woman, perhaps. I love the books that have given kids joy, that give them hope at the end. Sometimes it seems to me the books right now are very depressive.

I'm typing so f-ing hard I might break my f-ing Mac book Air!!!!!!!!

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

I think if you can take something out and it doesn't change the book, it doesn't need to be there.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by itself. Over the last several years, my life has been all about writing these books, but the books aren't about my life.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

The only things I read are gossip columns. If I read three pages of a book, I'm out like a light. When I pick up the book again, I've forgotten what I've read and have to start over again. By page three, even if I've just awakened from a nine -hour nap, I fall asleep again. So if anyone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.

I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the content.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write.

I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.

When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.

Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.