I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
Colleen McCullough
I think explicit love scenes are a turn off unless it's the kind you read with one hand.
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty... →
David McCullough
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me... →
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read... →
The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering... →
Margaret D. Nadauld
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
Satya Nadella
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
V. S. Naipaul