Jane Austen Quotes

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

Jane Austen

Quotes to Explore

My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

Ed Emberley
- Time
- Book
- Green
One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan
- Book
- College
- Graduation
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Book
- Doing
I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

Macaulay Culkin
- Book
- American
- Community
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.

Karin Slaughter
- Book
- Want
- Story
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
- Experience
- Book