Sharon Creech Quotes
I love the way that each book - any book - is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.
Sharon Creech
Quotes to Explore
I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
Adam Mansbach
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan
Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
Harlan Coben
Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
E. L. James
My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Gary Ross
I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
Rachel Zoe
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
Hakan Nesser
School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Nancy Mace has written a wonderful, timeless memoir of the great test to become the first female graduate of The Citadel. Her book is provocative, hilarious, illuminating, and true. It is also a love letter to her college and the best book about The Citadel ever written.
Pat Conroy
Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
Kathryn Harrison