Blown away Quote by Justine Larbalestier

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and fourth time.…

— Monica Ali

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

— Dan Chaon

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

— Harlan Coben

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie

I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.

— Tana French

I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily written and…

— Jennifer Saunders

“I saw you waving that hacksaw at the Dark Sisters,” Will pointed out. “And if I recall correctly, Lady Audley’s secret was, in fact,…

— Cassandra Clare

Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie.

— Sarah Greene

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a book

— Anonymous

We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love with the…

— Steven Rinella

I tell you, once a girl's got a dose of novels she's a pushover for iambic pentameter.

— A. A. Gill