American Quote by Amitava Kumar

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world,…

— Jo Walton

The sun shines. Readers read.

— Roderick Townley

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

— Jacqueline Susann

From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I…

— A. E. Hotchner

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

— Mark Twain

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta

“Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to take that…

— Madeline Sharples

My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

— Patricia T. O'Conner

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“The indignity of having to wear suntan lotion pales in comparison to getting skin cancer.”

— Jarod Kintz

Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore and visceral,…

— Gerard Way