Peter Sotos Quotes

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

I want to write books.

I'm the author of several books, including children's books.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

People do write books.

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

I write novels and other things.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

Like most authors, I also love to read.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

I love my books.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.