I actually don't know the legality of inheritance in George R.R. Martin's world.

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart...

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force...

The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the...

Long story short: E. L. James is a hero.

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

When a book is going well, it tells you where to go.

I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting...

Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many...

How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of...

I read Ann Cleeves's books and think the way she paints Shetland is very interesting.

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

I was really nerdy. Compared with my sisters, I often felt like a boring person because I lived so much in my head and in books.

I love going through fashion magazines, love to read - Paulo Coelho is my favourite author.

Every vampire fiction reinvents vampires to its own needs. You take what you want.

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.

'The Road' reminds me of Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath.'

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life...

Writers are rememberers.

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because...