Books-reading Quote by A.K. Kuykendall

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it…

— Ishmael Beah

I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where writing about…

— Laura Mullen

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a novelist. He…

— Gregory Benford

“Don’t forget the most basic reason we read: to discover what happens next. Make certain your devotion to pretty sentences and flesh-and-blood characters and…

— Benjamin Percy

“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part , a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules…

— Robertson Davies

“On getting lost in a book. Set adrift A life unknown Connections form Love is sewn”

— Patty Wiseman

“The child who believes there is life after a novel ends.”

— John Green

My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the…

— Pete Hamill

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed.”

— Czelslaw Milosz

“Writers of the world, if you’ve got a story, I want to hear it. I promise it will follow me to my last breath.…

— Pat Conroy