Alive Quote by Nigella Lawson

Now it's dedicated to my grandparents and to both of my parents. The first book was dedicated to my mother so I thought maybe…

— Carrie Fisher

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only…

— Howard Jacobson

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a journal of…

— Jim Beaver

I was, after all, the daughter of a man who believed that to be involved with books was to live at the heart of…

— Mary Cantwell

I think with my book, I wanted to first of all just be completely involved in it. I wanted to write it; I didn't…

— Vogue Williams

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody…

— Ned Beauman

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want…

— Tea Obreht

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

— Howard Jacobson

Sometimes family members will ask to be kept out of certain things that I'm writing, and I try to respect that. I'd much rather…

— Edwidge Danticat

I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading…

— Paula Poundstone

“The museums in children’s minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror—to protect the children from eternal grief. For my own…

— Kurt Vonnegut