Fairy Quote by Marilyn Hacker

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and…

— Edna Buchanan

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal…

— Dean Koontz

I would say I read around 50 books a year, sometimes more.

— Bria Vinaite

We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but…

— Max Lucado

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit…

— Leslie Banks

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many,…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we…

— Geraldine Brooks

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made…

— Christian Scott

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday.…

— Avi

Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around.

— David Grann

More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.

— M.J. Rose

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the…

— Ann Voskamp