My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.
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Related I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s... BARRY MCGEE I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... C.S. LEWIS I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volume... KHALED HOSSEINI I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publiciz... JACKIE COLLINS In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in m... ISABEL ALLENDE And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad ju... ADRIENNE MAYOR I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and archit... LUKE MACFARLANE Books... I can’t live without books. To me, a book is better than any movie. All I need is a good ... BELLE AURORA LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG... SARAVAN MAHESWER My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in p... HAMISH BOWLES I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody ass... JASPER FFORDE I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi... SALLY MANN I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon... RIVERS CUOMO Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother... ELLIOT ACKERMAN All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and ... BILL MUMY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and ... CHARLES POLLOCK I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou... ALAN BRADLEY I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '... BILL BRYSON I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in... ISABEL ALLENDE I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, ... CHRIS RIDDELL I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef... JEWELL PARKER RHODES My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she ... DAV PILKEY Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense ... JERRY SPINELLI I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And... DARIO ARGENTO The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books -... BEN LLOYD-HUGHES I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhamma... CONOR MCGREGOR I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books... CORNELIA FUNKE I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I hav... HOLLY BLACK My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ... MADI DIAZ My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use m... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have... JARED PADALECKI My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and ... ELISE BROACH I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on m... MARLO THOMAS Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, n... JOHN BURNSIDE I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops.... HANS-ULRICH OBRIST In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic. GARTH NIX Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and ... BILL MUMY One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to... ABRAHAM PAIS For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well, a... JACK CANFIELD It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors cl... MAYA ANGELOU The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the ... LEV GROSSMAN It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our fami... VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... MICHIO KAKU I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up... RYAN COOGLER I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I l... FLORENTIJN HOFMAN I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered liter... BEN PEEK I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl ... SORAYA DIASE COFFELT Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, m... METHOD MAN I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marpl... TALULAH RILEY I can't account for Beth at all, ... I would not say in any of my books that things have gotten away... JOAN BARFOOT I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man. DANIEL SEAN KAYE Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30... BILL MUMY One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to... ABRAHAM PAIS I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination ... THOMAS KINKADE Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and... BILL GATES I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language,... ARAVIND ADIGA We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot... WENDY COPE The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet.... CAROLYN MURPHY I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books. RACHEL COHN When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I... JANE GOODALL I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books i... WALTER DEAN MYERS I have a memory of my fourth-grade self wanting to be the first woman president of the United States... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul... SIMON SINEK If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's... KARA HAYWARD Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p... DIRK BENEDICT It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants, ... Soon I was making my own comic... DAV PILKEY One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life i... JACQUELINE KELLY I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby. ANNE WOJCICKI I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books market... JOJO MOYES Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long ... GEORGE CARLIN Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little hou... MARTHA STEWART I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. ANN RICHARDS Some of [my books] are expensive. I usually get book vouchers from my loans and use that money to bu... JAMES DEMPSEY Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books... LANGSTON HUGHES Music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything and it always... LISA MARIE PRESLEY I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and ... LYNN FLEWELLING Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I cou... KATE KLISE I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundati... GARRY KASPAROV Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read... AARON SWARTZ
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