Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.
Books are like tweets, except longer.
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.
One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different.
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
I like to read and watch a lot of movies.
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.
You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.
I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.
In crime, I like Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke. As for historical books, I enjoy Bernard Cornwell, Patrick O'Brien, and C. S. Forester - anything with battleships!
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.
