I wanted to make the world of ‘The Last Book in the Universe’ as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
I have vivid memories of junior high school. I didn’t quite know how to deal with kids and make friends and all of that. If you talked to people who knew me at the time, they’d think I was a popular kid in school. But boy, I didn’t feel that. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
I’ve always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I’ve written three or four that have never been produced. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn’t cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle – the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you’re free to make the novel as good as you can. You’re allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of game fish. Rodman Philbrick Read Quote
