Child Quote by Ayobami Adebayo

For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock…

— F. Sionil Jose

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

— Anthony Horowitz

People do write books.

— Kevin Pietersen

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

— Richard Scarry

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of…

— Chris Abani

When I worked as an editor, I read new novels being published in India every few days. They excited me tremendously for the first…

— Karan Mahajan

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

— Lynn Abbey

a writer is a foreign country

— Marguerite Duras

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another.

— Chris Meledandri

Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers.

— Kevin Sampsell

How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel