Anne Rice Quotes

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.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

I want to write books.

Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be is not a thing anymore. Everyone is redefining publishing, writing, and storytelling in general.

Well - when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures - all these little stars That shake out of my cloak - I must save those To use for asterisks.

Writing a book is an adventure.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

I'm excited to bring my characters to life in book form.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.

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

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

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

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I like writing historical fiction.

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