Lisa Kleypas Quotes

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

I am a huge fan of Amitav Ghosh's work. I wish I could meet him.

I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book.

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

When it comes to writers, I'm a huge fan of Ian McEwan. I've never taken a writing course, but reading and deconstructing his novels has been as good a lesson as any.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I think that my first book - I was trying to write the kind of book I would have loved as a kid. So it's sort of, like, a book inspired by my childhood reading and the passion that I felt about reading when I was a kid.

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

My ultimate crush may be Judith McNaught - I met her once more than 20 years ago, and she was incredibly kind and encouraging to me. I adore that woman. But I also fangirl over aspiring or beginning authors, because every time I talk with them, I'm so energized and inspired.

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.

For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.