Green eggs and ham Quote by Dan Roam

“Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he couldn’t write a book with…

— Austin Kleon

“The bluff on which Natchez sat was huge, and the road zigged and zagged and curled and twisted and dropped— like something Dr. Seuss…

— Faith Hunter

“And of a superior quality—as demonstrated by an unnamed “literary test subject” who, in July 1903, while living in a hotel in Washington, D.C.,…

— Mary Roach

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired…

— Jim Carrey

Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a…

— Susan Cain

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or…

— Harold Ross

“And where'd you get a crayon?” I ask Sawyer, 'cause the disproportionate balls are blue. “They got a nursery at this place. Not that…

— S.E. Hall

“And what do you keep in such a pretty little box, sir? Snuff?' Oh, no! It is a great treasure of mine that I…

— Susanna Clarke

“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the…

— Joshua Ferris

“It was a postcard. 'Greetings from the Land of 10,000 Lakes,' it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy…

— Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Some amiably deranged science-fiction writer had come up with it forty years back and, like so many of his kind, given it away for…

— Larry Niven