01/13/09

My Favorite Books

The Pact" by Jodi Picolt

"The Kite Runner"  by Khaled Hosseini

"A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

"Speak" by Laurie Haus Anderson

"The Secrete Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

"The Other Boleyn Sister" by Philippa Gregory

"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picolt

"The Stephanie Plum Series" by Janet Evanovich

"Marley and Me" by George Grogan

My Favorite Authors

Michael Crichton
Dan Brown
John Sanford
Jodi Picolt
Robin Cook
Mitch Albom
Lorna Landvick
Janet Evanovich

My Favorite Quotes

"Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window" ...William Faulkner

"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it" ... Jules Renard, "Diary", February 1895

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else" ... Erma Bombeck