I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.
Jami Attenberg
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections... →
You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something... →
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
David Attenborough
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to... →
Margaret Atwood
If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper... →
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your... →
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the... →
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.