Brilliant Quote by Thomas Perry

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary…

— Adriana Trigiani

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a…

— Anthony Doerr

Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.

— Ruth Ware

Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie.

— Sarah Greene

The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she…

— Hilary Mantel

I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full of interesting…

— Randi Zuckerberg

Valerie Martin was my mentor in college and she liked fiction that said something. That made it essential to have something to say. This…

— Sabina Murray

“Each girl has to read her story out loud then we talk it over. We are going to keep them all sacredly and have…

— L.M. Montgomery

I've always liked elliptical writing, whether it's Kafka or Paula Fox, and I'm often bored by writers who explain too much. I think that…

— Lynne Tillman

You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.

— Benjamin Franklin

No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become…

— Jonathan Messinger