Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.

I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

'Plutona' is the story of five kids who find the body of the world's greatest superhero in the woods after school one day. It's about how this discovery, and the decisions they make, affect them as a group and individually.

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right from 'The Babysitter's Club' over to Stephen King. His books were big and fat and they seemed important. I eventually worked my way through most of the shelf, but 'It' is the one that stuck with me.

'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

It's really surreal to be in something under the 'Goosebumps' title.

I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky' by Lesley Nneka Arimah blew my mind.

When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out when it finished. I've thought about the story every day since.

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

'Little Women' made me into a reader.

'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

There was a Ta-Nehisi Coates book called 'Between the World and Me' that I read the prologue, and I was so decimated by it that I couldn't even get through the rest of the book.

I wasn't brave enough to read the R. L. Stine book series when I was younger. But my brother read as many of them as he could.

One of my favorite things, coming of age, reading comics, was these ideologies and these philosophies of these characters. Seeing those on the page really represented in amazing ways some of my favorite 'Batman' comics like 'The Killing Joke' or 'The Dark Knight Returns.'

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

I'll always be grateful for 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' It brought me many, many, readers.

'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading 'Strange the Dreamer.' Of course, I shouldn't have been worried because Laini Taylor immediately grabbed me by the proverbial lapels and refused to let me go.

I remember when I was younger, we used to read the Goosebumps books that were absolutely terrifying.