Important Quote by Joe R. Lansdale

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

— John Malkovich

I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted…

— Karin Slaughter

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle

The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part…

— Gail Collins

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

— John Green

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which…

— David Simon

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans,…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Sometimes hearing the stories is going to change people's lives much more than if they read it.

— Sandra Cisneros

There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

— Sam Jaeger

I have always been a reader. I was one of those kids desperate to learn. I would read anything.

— Kate DiCamillo