Book Quote by James Frey

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for,…

— James Frey

I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline…

— Chelsea Martin

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the…

— Roy Kesey

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes,…

— Sarah Dessen

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at…

— Liza Campbell

“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into a book-shaped…

— Beth Revis

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for…

— Theodora Goss

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

— Mickey Spillane

After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong…

— Andrew Lam

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave…

— Mark Millar