Bigger Quote by Leslie Banks

I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole…

— Paul Kane

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending…

— Donna Leon

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,…

— James Frey

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at…

— Michael Winter

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could…

— Ramona Koval

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have…

— Stephen Greenblatt

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay…

— David Macaulay

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was…

— Mary MacLane

I actually really suck at naming books, so lots of years ago, readers were sending in their ideas for titles, and what we realized…

— Janet Evanovich

Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.

— Jesse Williams

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

— Ann Beattie