Bus Quote by Brian Jacques

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let alone a best-selling children's…

— Brian Jacques

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even…

— Augusten Burroughs

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do…

— Ben Lerner

Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

I really enjoy writing novels. Its like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.

— Denis Johnson

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

— Michael Pollan

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children…

— Quentin Blake

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place,…

— Antony Beevor