Biographies Quote by Brad Listi

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

— Paris Hilton

I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just…

— Michael Morpurgo

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still…

— Elif Batuman

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.

— Derrick Bell

“On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles,…

— Simon Cheshire

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

— Lincoln Child

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

— Lee Kuan Yew

“People often ask me what advice I have for writers, and I reply that the most important responsibility I believe a writer has is…

— Clive Barker

There were many times in my initial days as a writer when I had felt the need to talk to someone, to leverage on…

— Ravi Subramanian

I've had so many experiences with film or musicals or books where I just walk away changed in some way. One of the things…

— Tom Kitt

I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense…

— A. B. Yehoshua