Quotes About Author

I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.

I go to a lot of conferences and conventions to meet with readers directly.

Those of us involved in TV have a habit of using the word 'landmark' a bit too readily. I have been involved in a couple of television projects that, while we were making them, felt quite landmark-ish, but that in retrospect were just good TV.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.

Lindsay Hatton's novel 'Monterey Bay' so beautifully evokes the landscape of the titular locale, you'll feel transported to Northern California even if you're reading it on the bus on your morning commute.

One of my favorite things to read in the 'Observer' is the restaurant review by Jay Rayner. I love reading about these restaurants that I won't ever have the time to go to.

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading, it feels so honest.

I remember reading 'The Running Man' in like one night.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.

I find the idea of the recap page to be something of a waste. It's the page nobody ever reads and it's even worse because it doesn't tell you who anybody really is.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.

Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

I remember seeing stories on Wattpad with five million reads and thinking, 'That must be incredible.'

I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.