I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
Nora Roberts
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction... →
Tansy Rayner Roberts
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age... →
Pat Robertson
Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry... →
Anwar Robinson
I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much.
Bruce Robinson
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my... →
Marilynne Robinson
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from... →
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my... →
I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that... →