Alexander McCall Smith
Related JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely bl... PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN JOHN GREEN Technology books are certainly on our wish list for Don Estridge, and we plan to beef up our collect... EILEEN HARDEN I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the s... ALEXI ZENTNER DAPHNE DU MAURIER STEVE TOLTZ There is something for everyone at our book sales. We usually have everything from science and scien... ESTHER BUCK ANN BEATTIE I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in whic... EVAN DANDO RICHARD FORD Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU E. M. FORSTER DEYTH BANGER ALICE MUNRO WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Very rarely am I attracted to characters that are 'woe is me.' I'm not a big fan of wome... MILA KUNIS PATRICIA BRIGGS I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for... T. J. PERKINS LOIS LOWRY The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... E. M. FORSTER IAN MCEWAN Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each othe... AARON D. O'CONNELL I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life. RON CARLSON TUCKER MAX NATALIE PORTMAN I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books... LOUIS L'AMOUR I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some wa... DANIEL SUAREZ JAMES HOWE E. M. FORSTER EARTHA KITT BARBARA HAMBLY TAMORA PIERCE CRAIG GROESCHEL ANNA QUINDLEN ZADIE SMITH I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende... RACHEL KUSHNER SUE TOWNSEND CHARLIE KAUFMAN MICHELLE PAVER There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, rea... AARON CARTER ISABEL ALLENDE TERRY PRATCHETT RICHARD STALLMAN I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian... M. F. HUSAIN ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Ada... WEN JIABAO AMY TAN KARIN SLAUGHTER Sauces or peppers that arent hot, are like books that dont entretain (or vice versa). JAIME TENORIO VALENZUELA PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done... GRACE LIN I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ... BRYAN COGMAN I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. ELEANOR CATTON ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret ... STEVE WYNN ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just ... MILES D. WHITE My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they... DARREN SHAN I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data ... DOROTHY DENNING In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people bu... ROSAMUNDE PILCHER You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the book... J. R. MOEHRINGER LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - th... CAROL ANSHAW I don't think we need another law on the books to cover that subject. BOB EATON A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ... IAN RANKIN I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dul... DANIEL HANDLER I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexande... ALEX SPANOS CAROLYN WELLS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CLARENCE LINDER The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem t... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We do... DAVID AXELROD SUZANNE SOMERS MICHEL FABER GINA RAIMONDO ROBERT KIYOSAKI Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio... JOE QUEENAN DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF A. S. BYATT Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,... JON SCIESZKA CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE DAVID BERGEN ROXANE GAY ANTHONY HOPKINS But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need... RON RASH SUE GRAFTON JOEL OSTEEN I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in d... OCTAVIA SPENCER As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons an... 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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We ne... 
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping. 
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertai... 
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. 
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have writte... 
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon... 
You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...
I seem to turn out stories that violate the discipline of the short story form and don't obey th... 
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. 
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... 
I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... 
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gon... 
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able t... 
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essentia... 
I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people... 
I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr... 
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little fart... 
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it&#... 
It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that... 
Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's s... 
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl... 
I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things li... 
Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading. 
My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want ch... 
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for... 
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... 
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying ... 
…people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most r... 
For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never h... 
I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someon... 
A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success fo... 
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave ... 
...But although the rules are vague
The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don't sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard... 
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... 
I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and... 
'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject m... 
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here,... 
Don't ignore big problems, and don't try to pretend that problems are smaller than they are. 
I've had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewar... 
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ... 
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep ... 
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? 
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it. 
I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevic... 
I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ... 
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every bo... 
I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send ... 
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and hap... 
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copi... 
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. 
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. 
I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.