Comfort Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who…

— Monica Wood

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

— Fay Weldon

“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Stories matter. They shape our lives, expectations, and dreams. They are the warp and weave of our human existence, binding us into a fabric…

— Bascomb James

“Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We…

— Alan Watt

“Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!”

— Carolyn Hockley

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show up and…

— Kate DiCamillo

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

— Thea Astley