Sonny Mehta Quotes

Literature has become my life.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.

I like very much to read novels. I like very much some writers.

One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.

Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.

People do write books.

I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.

I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now.

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'

I have a huge passion for literature.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Like most authors, I also love to read.