Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how... →
David Hackworth
My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes... →
Jane Haddam
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
Mark Haddon
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct... →
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be... →
I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being... →
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
I think good books have to make a few people angry.