When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the... →
Elmore Leonard
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and... →
Hugh Leonard
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new... →
Jill Lepore
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to... →
Logan Lerman
A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get... →
Edward M. Lerner
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human... →
Max Lerner
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office!
Matthew Lesko
What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had - I don't know... →
Doris Lessing
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'