I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever.
Marie Lu
HeartTeacherMeBookEndLegend
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
Francis Lockier
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My first children's book, 'Tickle Monster,' was inspired by tickling my son one evening.
Josie Bissett
SonChildrenBookEveningFirst
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
Jan Karon
LifeLoveMeWritingBookLoved
A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
Chris Pavone
BookPotentialDecisionsShortWill
Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.
Elmore Leonard
SnowWeatherBookIceYouWant
I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.
Robert Pattinson
MyselfMeBookPictureUncomfortable
The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.
Philip Pullman
BookStoryDelightFunctionPoem
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
Virginia Henley
MeSmallBookWayWriteEven
A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.
Sonny Mehta
WorkBookRestBringMightThen
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
Rick Bragg
WritingBookThinkDoingChapter
I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.
Jamaica Kincaid
BookYouNothingWayDictionary
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
Molly Ringwald
PeopleWritingBookThinkKindHear
If you have a smartphone - and you have a smartphone - then you have a comic book store in your pocket. So you don't have to get over any social anxiety you have about entering that space.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
SpaceBookAnxietyYouOverSocial
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
Zosia Mamet
TimeBookReadingThinkingGoDates
As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.
Dick Van Dyke
HomeScienceSchoolMeBookBetter
When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many years ago when they were reading my picture books, and now they're telling me how much they enjoy my novels.
Grace Lin
ChildrenMeBookReadingPicture
The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.
Jennifer Egan
MeWorldBookUncomfortableLook
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
Armistead Maupin
BookPlanningInternetLearnBack
Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings are amazing: you get to hear the book in the author's own voice, ask questions, and meet the writer. For free.
Celeste Ng
DayAmazingBookFreeVoiceYou
I got lucky, and the first book, 'The Black Echo,' got published.
Michael Connelly
BookBlackLuckyFirstGotEcho
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
Patti Smith
LoveGirlBookGivingYoungReports
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Rose Macaulay
TimeBookBetterDeadWhoLike
If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
Mariella Frostrup
BookBlondeWillWriteBottleEver
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