Art Quote by Kate Forsyth

As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'

— Kate Forsyth

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the…

— Virginia Hamilton

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me…

— Sefi Atta

For more than three years, I'd been part of a complex and frustrating dance as my nonfiction, fact-based material was translated from book to…

— A'Lelia Bundles