Anything Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

— Richard Ford

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain…

— J. K. Rowling

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews.

— Joseph Heller

It gives me a huge buzz when people say they've enjoyed my books, because this grew out of a hobby, and it's an absolute…

— Alison Weir

Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll…

— Meg Rosoff

The thing people don't realize, God bless them, is that my books are supposed to suck.

— Stephenie Meyer

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

— James Ellroy

There is no book of mine that I reject. That does not mean that I find them good.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't read reviews or take any feedback from anyone. Here's the thing: The stories don't even care what I think about them. They…

— J.R. Ward

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if…

— George Eliot