I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
Karin Slaughter
Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that... →
I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an... →
When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better... →
I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
Grace Slick
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at... →
Jane Smiley
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even... →
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he... →
'Lean on Pete' is the story of a boy and his horse, but it is never heart-warming - it ranges in tone from desperate to merely painful - and... →
When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and... →