Tamora Pierce Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

  Tamora Pierce

  Horse, Book, Years

• Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Yardsticks, Wealth

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Dark

  "YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

• With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Writing, Ongoing

• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Giving

  "Interview | YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

• Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Thinking, Editing

• What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

  Tamora Pierce

  Dream, Book, People

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