While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the... →
Octavia Butler
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
Asa Butterfield
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a head disappears, more heads... →
Tony Buzan
As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,'... →
Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not... →
A. S. Byatt
A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were... →
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
Lord Byron
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell... →
Ellen Hopkins