Becoming Quote by Anne Lamott

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone…

— Joe Queenan

Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust me. I…

— Nina Jacobson

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

— Peter Jackson

I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You would cross…

— Helen Bevington

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of…

— Dean Koontz

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even…

— Robin S. Sharma

I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return,…

— Kate Morton

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make…

— William Brinkley

I've always been a narcissist.

— Damian Lewis