Mitchell Zuckoff Quotes

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

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

I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

I'm a huge fan of Beverly Cleary.

John Grisham is one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

My favorite author is David Baldacci; I've read all his books. I even have a picture with Baldacci taken during his book-signing in the States.

I'm a Stephen King fanatic.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.