Book Authors Quotes

Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books have been described as froth, but there's scope to be witty and ironic about everything in life.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

People who can write a book usually do.

If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that.

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.

I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Pat Moynihan wrote more books than most of his colleagues in the senate ever read.

Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people who write books that you read. You used to have to write a letter to the publisher and hope they passed it along, which they never did.

I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

People really want to set up these rivalries because there's a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we're all fierce rivals, and really there's just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.

Just as readers often turn into writers, novel-writers often become novel-reviewers.

I don't sign contracts for my books.

We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality.

Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.