Frank Warren
The book that set a course. At The Book Thing in Baltimore I saw a man persistently searching over the used-book shelves. More
Gregory Maguire
One of the reasons HarperCollins has been my most frequent publisher for thirty-three years is that I admired three children’s books published by Harper & Row within a year of each other (the year I was turning nine). More
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Why do I read? Seriously? I’m supposed to provide an intelligent answer? More
Eloisa James
The simple answer is that I love a happy ending. More
Meg Cabot
I write because of readers like Diana Moreno, who handed me a letter recently telling me that, as the firstborn daughter of immigrants, she felt lonely and shy when she arrived here in 2004 . . . until she found my books. More
Dorothea Benton Frank
You’ve asked me to tell you why I write but I think the answer might be longer than the fifty or one hundred words you’ve allotted me. More
Stacy Gregg
Each time the love is different. You meet-cute on the first page. More
Tessa Duder
This week, I’ve been with Elena Ferrante in Naples, travelling The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan... More
Deborah Challinor
I read to escape, whether the genre is crime, historical, dystopian, thriller, or biography. More
Michele A’Court
I read because I want to live more than one life. Books take us out of ourselves into a whole other world. More
Sanjay Suri
Why I read . . . Because I can live many lives in one, and travel many worlds in one. More
V. Raghunathan
Mark Twain’s quote “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read” had a significant influence on me in my early years, which helped me take to reading seriously. More
Karthika Nair
Books that influenced me: Haroun and the Sea of Stories. More
Namita Gokhale
I read to share the world, to treasure words, to learn and intuit and recognise experiences to which I have no direct access. More
M. J. Akbar
Why I read: To learn. More
Pallavi Aiyyar
I read to travel within and to range wide beyond my limited firsthand experiences. More
RaeAnne Thayne
I write because I love knowing my stories bring people joy. More
Gena Showalter
I read for the same reason I write. More
Diana Palmer
The first romance novel I ever read was Margaret Way’s Red Cliffs of Malpara. More
Susan Mallery
When I write, I have a specific reader in mind. More
Mary Kubica
I read to transport myself. More
Brenda Jackson
Of all the books I’ve read, it was a romance story that influenced me the most. More
Kristan Higgins
A book that influenced me and why . . . Little House on the Prairie. More
Heather Graham
Why I read . . .Books are simply magic. More
B. J. Daniels
I grew up in Montana on stories around the campfire so it’s no surprise that I love to read—and write my own. More
Robyn Carr
Writing changes me, teaches me, broadens me, and makes me more aware. More
Lis Wiehl
I have a confession to make: I am a mindless reader. More
Lysa TerKeurst
I’ll never forget going through Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby and Victory Over the Darkness by Neil Anderson simultaneously as a new Christian. More
Lee Strobel
Why do I write? I write because I read. More
Dave Ramsey
When young leaders in my organization ask me what they can do to grow, my first response is always pretty obvious: read! More
Jen Hatmaker
By the time I was ten, I’d probably read The Secret Garden thirty times. More
Bob Goff
What I like the most when I read books are the surprise endings. More
John Eldredge
I write for the same reasons I read—for pleasure, for wonder, but mostly to sort things out. More
Jefferson Bethke
Reading books to me is one of the biggest joys in all of life. More
Rosemary Sullivan
I write out of compulsion. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner,” as Alan Sillitoe remarked—the exhilaration and discipline of the run; the finish line unknown until you get there. More
Charlotte Gray
A book that influenced me and why: Middlemarch by George Eliot. More
Emma Donoghue
Like many teenagers, I spent more of my summer holidays than I probably should have immersed in the world of The Lord of the Rings. More
Jay Onrait
I read because as much as I love film and television, and documentaries, and Facebook, and Twitter and Snapchat, and my abacus . . . More
Heather O’Neill
A book that influenced me and why: A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais More
Frances Itani
I write because I am happiest when I am in what Tillie Olsen once described to me as “that bless’ed state.” More
Lawrence Hill
Writing is the one pursuit I have always pursued, and always known I was compelled to pursue. More
Matt Haig
It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More
The Transformation of Harlequin
By the 1990s, Harlequin had become synonymous with romance novels, grown the category into a score of successful subgenre lines, opened offices around the world, and seen its books made available in more than 100 countries and 30 languages. More
New Naturalists
William Collins V (known as Billy Collins) and the printers AdPrint came up with the idea of the New Naturalist Library in 1942.
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Canada’s White Circle Pocket Editions
In response to global paper shortages during World War II, Canada began manufacturing books for international markets in 1941. More
The Publisher of presidents
HarperCollins is the publisher of many United States presidents–beginning with the very first one. More
Amistad
HarperCollins’s Amistad Press is the oldest imprint devoted to titles for the African American market at any major New York publishing house. More
The HarperCollins Logo
The HarperCollins logo represents the 1990 consolidation of Harper & Row, based in New York, and Collins Publishers, based in London and Glasgow. More
Inventing the Western
Zane Grey and A. B. Guthrie Jr. were considered two of the foremost writers on the American West. More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
HarperCollins’s connections to nascent science fiction and fantasy worlds began with works such as Edward Lytton Bulwer’s The Coming Race (1871), and H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds (1898) and The Invisible Man (1898). More