Katie Kitamura Quotes

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

I spend about a year between novels.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me, it's gotten so that it doesn't seem as though I've read a book unless I've written about it. It really seems the completion of the reading process.

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

I don't very often read novels.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

If you're a writer, and you write fiction, that's not all you read.

I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

In sixth grade, I made up books to give book reports on.

My books aren't autobiographical.