Annoying Quote by Margaret Drabble

“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through…

— Nick Hornby

When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed…

— Sara Zarr

Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too many other…

— George Packer

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

— Margaret Drabble

It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test strips something…

— Kate DiCamillo

When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and…

— Mary Roach

When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"

— Lewis Black

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

— China Mieville

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

“I always think of books being tougher in a sense, in that you’ve got to sit down and you’ve got to do a little…

— Markus Zusak

There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.

— Margaret Haddix