Books Quote by Janette Turner Hospital

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins…

— Ross Macdonald

Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality…

— William Golding

“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was Sinclair Lewis’s…

— Richard Wright

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of…

— Hugh Howey

“But sometimes unexpected things happen that can rouse an old memory, something seminal, a past event so momentous and strong that, like a rare…

— Steve Duno

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and…

— Dean Koontz

“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged, a light…

— Christopher Fowler