The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
“Dreamers dream. Readers read. Writers write. I was born to be all three.” — Terri Costola Copy Share Image
“Kafka: ‘We ought to read only the kind of books that would stab us.’” “Writing” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
Buying clothes is as good as buying books, but the difference is that clothes make you beautiful form the outside and books… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Part of the thing about why I wrote memoirs rather than a novel is that if anybody is going to tell my… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
More than half of my former students teach - elementary and high school, community college and university. I taught them to be… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Since it was announced that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has condemned my works… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very… — Amanda Peet Copy Share Image
“Ugly or not, I could still kiss you if I wanted to, and you’d let me.” I choked on the rich cocoa… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
I would tell myself to get more sleep! Believe it or not, I wrote the book while finishing my PhD in English… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
