Assault Quote by Kevin Barry

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into…

— Julie Schumacher

Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy…

— James Dashner

I didn't like filtering the story through me, saying, 'Reader, you'll be safe with me. While it gets a little dangerous, it'll be okay…

— Michael Winter

This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable…

— Craig Ferguson

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

— William Wordsworth

I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

— Sylvain Tesson

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I…

— Salman Rushdie

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and…

— Sandra Cisneros

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like…

— James Patterson

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door.…

— Jeanette Winterson

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward…

— Jodi Picoult

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel,…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson