Any Quote by Jane Gardam

I once owned a collection of 77 novels that won the Pulitzer. The only good novel of the bunch was The Grapes of Wrath.

— Larry McMurtry

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first…

— L. Frank Baum

I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working…

— Carole Radziwill

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The biggest book for me, when I was fifteen, was Crime and Punishment, which I read in a kind of fever. When I put…

— Paul Auster

I haven't won any prizes or had any best sellers.

— Glen Duncan

The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to read with…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

— Anonymous

The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart.

— Ruskin Bond

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

— Kate Adie

I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize…

— Sharon Creech