Jean Rostand Quotes

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I like short stories.

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!

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I've been into short stories ever since I read an Angela Carter collection when I was a teenager.

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

Books are packaged dreams.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

[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.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.