“I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books, or I meet someone who tells me how it has changed their life. To me, that is much more real than sales figures.” PeopleBookRealYoungFiguresChangedGoes OnInternetImpressed Author:Robert Greene
“I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they changed [it from the book], I just want to look at it and go, "I loved that. That really turned out well."” IfsWantWellsLooksBookEndsCareChangedTelevisionProjectsDon't CareI Don't CareMovie Love Author:James Patterson
“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.” WritingFirstsBookWorstChangedSickTwentiesIllnessDecadesAcceptedExoticChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume
“The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.” BookStoriesHalfChangedKingsLutherChanged My LifeMontgomery Author:John Lewis
“I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.” YearsBookEnvironmentChangedYears AgoMarkBlogs Author:Sam Abell
“It's been such a privilege and an honor to be writing this book [he Pleiadian Promise]. It's really changed my life, and it has absorbed my every waking moment for months. I'm going to be relieved to put that aside and just release it, because it's been a lot, not too much; it's been very glorious, but it has been a lot for me.” WritingHas BeensBookMomentsToo MuchChangedMonthsHonorPromisePrivilegeReleaseGloriousWakingRelievedChanged My Life Author:Christine McCormick Day
“As a kid books changed how I looked at the world and helped me understand things. Books still deepen me and open my heart.” WorldHeartStillsBookKidsChangedMy HeartBooks For Kids Author:Kate DiCamillo
“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.” PeopleThinkingYearsMadeBookHurtWeekShareNew YorkChangedThousandMouthsMovedMade ItTransformedWord Of MouthHurting PeopleOne Thousand Gifts Author:Ann Voskamp
“When I sign books, I get lines of people and what they usually say is: "Thank you. You have changed my life." I am really moved by that.” PeopleBookLinesChangedMovedChanged My LifeYou Have Changed Author:Richard Dawkins
“To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.” BookRealCharacterHonestChangedSurpriseFinishedBeing HonestNightingales Author:Megan Chance
“I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.” PeopleThinkingYearsMadeBookHurtWeekShareNew YorkChangedThousandMouthsMovedDareMade ItWhere You AreTransformedNew York TimesWord Of MouthHurting PeopleOne Thousand Gifts Author:Ann Voskamp
“One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.” WayWritingKindBookTodayPartyTalkingClassChangedRight NowUnionsTeaKneesWorking ClassJerkTea Party1930sExhilaratingSubtitles Author:Bill Ayers
“The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.” PeopleWritingLittlesBookRealizingTalkingStepsChangedLifestyleOrganizedTouringDisruptiveNew Places Author:Garance Dore