Authors:

Book Quotes - Page 640

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Letter to Richard Hoppner, October 29 1819, in L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.61, Baen Publishing Enterprises

I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.

"Lois Lowry, ‘Son’ And ‘The Giver’ Author, Reflects On Dystopian Novels, Psychopaths And Why Kids Make The Best Audiences". Interview with Lucas Kavner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

Lois Lowry (2008). “The Willoughbys”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt