Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

Marguerite Young

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.

Marguerite Young

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

Natsuo Kirino

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

Natsuo Kirino

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a writer.

Nicole Krauss

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

Nicole Krauss

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

Nicole Krauss

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

Nicole Krauss

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.

Nicole Krauss

Era normal ensartar las palabras en un hilo para guiarlas y evitar que se extraviaran por el camino hacia su destino

Nicole Krauss

I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of--it was the creatures of the night.

Kitty Steals the Show

As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

Chelsea Cain

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

Chelsea Cain

I was born in Iowa City and spent my early childhood on a hippie commune just outside of town.

Chelsea Cain

I grew up in Washington State and then eventually found my way back to Iowa City for grad school.

Chelsea Cain

No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Chelsea Cain

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

Chelsea Cain

I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

Chelsea Cain

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warner

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Dudley Warner