Darren Shan
Related MELISSA DE LA CRUZ ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH BILL CLEGG NANCY GARDEN Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted. ALBERTO MANGUEL LANGSTON HUGHES MARGUERITE YOURCENAR W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in ... DIANE WAKOSKI ANJELICA HUSTON AMY BLOOM TAMORA PIERCE DEYTH BANGER JACKIE COLLINS AMY LOWELL MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO AMY LOWELL MARK HADDON ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES SUSAN SONTAG SUSAN SONTAG URSULA K. LE GUIN I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in... CHERYL BENARD STEPHEN KING JAMES PATTERSON AMY LOWELL GENE FOWLER I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik... JOY FIELDING SARAH REES BRENNAN I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were ... DARREN SHAN JUNOT DIAZ I am concerned about the fate of ordinary people in the contemporary world. They blindly believe the... LI QIANG JUDITH VIORST I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to b... OREN PELI As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granari... WILLIAM H. GASS AMY LOWELL I wanted to create jobs so that my children could stay here in our community and work. People in the... BILLY PICKERING CASSANDRA CLARE WALTER BENJAMIN I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who wri... EDDIE TRUNK ISRAELMORE AYIVOR G.K. CHESTERTON Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forc... LYNNE TRUSS CASSANDRA CLARE ISRAELMORE AYIVOR ROBERT DE NIRO A. S. BYATT Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for... NATAN SHARANSKY It's a big undertaking. Most of these girls are so young, you just have to take your lumps. I really... BETH MCNAMARA DOROTHY ALLISON People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your chil... JOE QUEENAN The books the children get to choose from are always brand new books. We try to have a mixture of re... DONNA CLAPP RIVER PHOENIX JAMES GUNN No reason to dwell on why. We all know bullies are bullies because they have their own problems they... VALERIE ORMOND The Problem With Most People In Their Lives Is That They Focus On What They Don't Have And What Is H... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD One of the things people forget about this is it builds self confidence. Watch these children when t... EDDIE LEE My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books... ALEJANDRO AMENABAR RICK RIORDAN NATHANIEL PHILBRICK DEYTH BANGER PICO IYER THOMAS FRANK People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER CHERIE BLAIR In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader... DEBBIE MACOMBER The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth... FRANCES O'CONNOR DEYTH BANGER The key is to focus on the details of individual lives. Kids imitate one another, their parents, and... PETER J. RICHERSON The consolidation has always been part of the operating landscape and it always will be. But these o... JAMES DOUGHERTY I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti... CONNIE WILLIS ELLEN G. WHITE Because children take everything personally, they believe that if they are being mistreated, it's be... MARCIA SIROTA My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have be... JOAN MIRO As a librarian, I have seen a lot of books checked out of the library that I didn't think were very ... COURTNEY LEWIS The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters in... STANLEY TUCCI Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us ... ERICA SEHYUN SONG GARY SHTEYNGART SETH GRAHAME-SMITH ROBERTSON DAVIES CARRIE NUGENT OSWALD CHAMBERS ROBERT CHAMBERS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a... LOUIS NIZER ROBERT CHAMBERS My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't ... ANNE FADIMAN We also have our own library, because sometimes seniors forget about taking books back and they have... CAROLYN COATES Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I honestly don't get that upset about that label, ... Whether you call it 'Chick Lit,' 'Mommy Lit' o... JENNIFER WEINER I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON As long as our kids can focus on playing their games and not worry about what everybody else is shoo... CAL HUBBARD These are girls just starting to figure out who they are as individuals. who they are as people. The... LACY ASBILL I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're abso... SANDRA BROWN Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I th... OTSUICHI J. SWARTZ WILLIAM STYRON HOLLY BLACK
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