Books Quote by Chelsea Cain Download Open image “I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff.” — Chelsea Cain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Carol Hill Jordan Obsessed Stuff Tony Twisted Val
I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,'… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything… — Caroline Thompson Copy Share Image
I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas. — M. K. Hobson Copy Share Image
I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I also read Dumas,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with a writer called Martin Amis when I was a teenager. I read everything. Every single time I went to a… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“She'd liked Pearl. Pearl hadn't meant to Tazer Archie. Well, she meant to Tazer him, but how was she supposed to know that her… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town. — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew'… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“Robbins had opened Gabby up. Her charred skin was peeled back, and her ribs were removed. She was pink inside, like steak that had… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet.… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image