Book Quote by Colson Whitehead

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

— Gavid Hood

If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

— Jackie French

I write books to find out about things.

— Rebecca West

The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I…

— Gary Gygax

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan

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

— Lincoln Child

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to…

— Anna Quindlen

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of…

— Mary Steenburgen

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn…

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of…

— Jonathan Raban

What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings…

— Walter Dean Myers