California Quote by George Pelecanos

“Writers: We can't get it right until we do it wrong. Then we do it better...”

— Diem Burden

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

— Neal Shusterman

“so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no…

— Paul Feig

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.

— Sam Lipsyte

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Once in a while, when reality is too painful to bear, fiction can help us to restore the fragility of our human condition.”

— Frances Stead Stellers

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

— Henry James

“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.”

— Willie van Peer

“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger than what…

— Gary Schmidt

“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of…

— Bauvard

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova