A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment''s not mine - it's... →
Kate Atkinson
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen.... →
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.
Jami Attenberg
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
Colleen Atwood
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... →
Margaret Atwood
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.
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack... →
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for... →