“Here lies Edan Lepucki: she earned her ending.” --Edan Lepucki, author of the upcoming novel “California” (Bader Howar )
“All will be lost. Everything we do, everything we make, everything we love.” --T.C. Boyle, whose most recent book is “T.C. Boyle: Stories II” (Jamieson Fry / Penguin Group)
“Never met a word count she didn’t exceed, in life and in work.” --Heather Cocks, right, co-author of the young adult novel “Messy” (Jessica Morgan, left) (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
“Well, that was fun.” --Attica Locke, author of the novel “The Cutting Season” (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
“Is there any way I might get just a bit more pie?” --Tod Goldberg, author of the upcoming novel “Gangsterland” (Linda Woods)
“He turned ideas into stories.” --Thomas Goetz, author of “The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis” (Christopher Michel / Gotham)
“Great, now you want to read my books?” --Samantha Dunn, author of the novel “Failing Paris” (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
“No sequel planned.” --Christina Lynch, right, one half of the writing team Magnus Flyte, which penned the novel “City of Lost Dreams” (Meg Howrey at left) (Travis Tanner)
“Short ride; loved most of it.” --T. Jefferson Parker, author of the novel “The Famous and the Dead” (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“Dry your tears. On with the show.” --Sandra Tsing Loh, author of the upcoming memoir “The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones” (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
“Here lies Jeff VanderMeer. He never much minded learning to fly after he’d jumped off the cliff.” --Jeff VanderMeer, author of the upcoming novel “Authority” (Richard Klienik)
“On deadline.” --Melissa de la Cruz, author of the young adult novel “The Ring and the Crown” (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
“Didn’t want to go. Went anyway.” --Chris Daley, judge for L.A. Times Book Prize in fiction (Courtesy Chris Daley)
“She tried.” --Rachel Shukert, author of the novel “Love Me” (Tina Schula )
“A preposition is a word you never end your life’s story with.” --Bill Konigsberg, author of the young adult novel “Openly Straight” (Sam Wylie )
