In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
Bruce Coville
Related Our goal is to collect as many donated books as possible for a designated delivery before Christmas.... GREG WRIGHT I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age'... GARTH NIX I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts c... NALO HOPKINSON I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they hav... SARAH REES BRENNAN The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the '... FRAN TARKENTON If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any ... MELISSA ROSENBERG My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger a... NANCY GARDEN I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every bo... CHARLAINE HARRIS I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and the... JOE HALDEMAN I've written three books you could think of as memoirs. CALVIN TRILLIN I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different li... JANE YOLEN Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. JOYCE RACHELLE what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, ... ENID BLYTON The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although ... JOHN UPDIKE People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that havi... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done... GRACE LIN I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t... JACKIE COLLINS I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many peo... ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr... MILAN KUNDERA Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abno... BETHANY HAMILTON As a writer of both novels and screenplays, I can say that screenwriting is a vastly rewarding creat... JOHN FUSCO As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or s... IAN RANKIN Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became ... JEFFREY ARCHER Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE With the average age of game players now 30, our industry naturally creates content appropriate for ... DOUG LOWENSTEIN I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don&... TED BELL If there is any message in the 'Wimpy Kid' books, it is that reading can be and should be fu... JEFF KINNEY I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' com... ANDY BIERSACK I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte... ERRI DE LUCA I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and ... JACQUELINE WOODSON Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, on... TIM HARFORD Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I ... JOHN KNOLL If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and ... E. L. KONIGSBURG I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and ev... BRIAN P. CLEARY One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an ... DANIEL TAMMET I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ... PATRICK CARMAN There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, whic... HENRY JAMES Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike,... DANIEL ALARCON Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being a... ALEX FLINN Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me... EVE BUNTING I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's ... NANCY GARDEN Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusa... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal... THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH To celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth in 2008 we are looking at a wide range of differen... IAN FLEMING The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending... KIM YOUNG-HA Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i... LEWIS N. ROE The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is hav... ANTHONY JESELNIK One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in te... KEN ADAM I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ... ANDREW CLEMENTS I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an... VIGGO MORTENSEN The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr... MILAN KUNDERA But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. JON KRAKAUER There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We ne... JOHN GREEN Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight... BRUCE COVILLE My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've w... KATE THOMPSON I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of type... KALI HAWK Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev... A WALK TO REMEMBER I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels.... DAVE PIRNER I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectiv... JIMMY CARTER I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewe... JOHN GREEN In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book r... LAURA MOSER All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, cert... RUPERT FRIEND There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at... KATE THOMPSON I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie... SAM ABELL My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've repres... BILL CLEGG My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an... SOPHIE KINSELLA Most great leaders in history that I've studied always need to get as wide a range of opinions a... JOHN MCCAIN Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of diffe... CATHERINE JINKS When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,0... BRAD FELD Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. FRED SABERHAGEN
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BRUCE LEE I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'Wh... LENNY BRUCE The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Lik... BRUCE LEE Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to sa... LENNY BRUCE Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to thin... BRUCE BARTON When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful o... BRUCE BARTON If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your t... BRUCE JENNER If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. BRUCE BARTON The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance... LENNY BRUCE The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere ... BRUCE BABBIT I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without diseas... LENNY BRUCE The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. LENNY BRUCE No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one va... BRUCE BARTON Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity tha... BRUCE BARTON As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words eve... BRUCE BARTON What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will no... BRUCE BARTON Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. BRUCE BARTON The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. LENNY BRUCE In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. LENNY BRUCE The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ... BRUCE BARTON We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wi... BRUCE BARTON A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out ... LENNY BRUCE In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. MICHAEL BRUCE When you're through changing, you're through. BRUCE BARTON If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric... LENNY BRUCE Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them... BRUCE BARTON The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the... BRUCE BARTON Advertising is the very essence of democracy. BRUCE BARTON Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou... BRUCE CAMPBELL Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. BRUCE LEE Communism is like one big phone company. LENNY BRUCE