Books Quote by Amy Tan

Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

— Ron Chernow

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life…

— Pankaj Mishra

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

— Norman Rush

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

— Robert Boswell

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the…

— Amy Tan

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed…

— Kevin Keck

As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in…

— George Saunders

I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case,…

— Rick Riordan

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of…

— David Foster Wallace

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls