Kelli O'Hara Quotes

Like many readers, I am continually in search of books that allow me to lose myself in an entirely unique universe.

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

I would say the reason that I've never written a novel is because I've never written a novel.

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

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

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.

I get transported when I read books.

What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the book from end to beginning," Owen jokes. "That way, no one dies, and it's always a happy ending.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.

[Books] will visit you at your convenience, whether you are lonesome or not, on rainy days or fair. They propose themselves as either transient acquaintances or permanent friends. They will stay as long as you like, departing or returning as you wish. Their friendship entails no obligation. Best of all, and not always true of our merely human friends, they have Cleopatra's infinite variety.

A Fiddle for Angus is a charming tale. This is a very fine book.

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.