Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
Moon Unit Zappa
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the... →
Sara Zarr
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear... →
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Gabrielle Zevin
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a... →
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they... →
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but... →
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each... →
Cecily von Ziegesar