Nancy Pickard Quotes

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

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings.

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

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.

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

I never read articles about my books.

I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.

I always give a little talk before I sign books and ask for questions. I love the Q&A sessions. We have a lot of fun at my book signings. I make sure of that!

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

I love signing the books; it's so exciting to see my readers in person.

There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go out there and sell it.

Basbanes makes you love books.

I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me about a book that they care about. If I think about it as being a celebrity, it would freak me out. But I just think, lucky me, that I get to be a part of this whole thing.

Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the book onto film as humanly possible. I think he did a fabulous job. And also I'm thrilled because the movie brings people to the book - people that wouldn't know about the book - and that's a great thing.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.