Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book. — Caroline Mytinger Copy Share Image
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days. — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays. — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“Where do you get your ideas?' people are always asking authors they admire, which I’ve always thought was another way of asking,… — Suzanne Berne Copy Share Image
“What I don't tell him is that I don't want to see him. My real Baba is a thirty-three-year-old storybook hero: untouchable,… — Dina Nayeri Copy Share Image
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
