Absorb Quote by David Guterson

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

— Brent Spiner

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this…

— Sabaa Tahir

I was heavily influenced by my first attempt at a novel. I started a fantasy novel back in high school, and... well... it really…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of…

— E. O. Wilson

In college, I'd gone abroad to get away from a campus where I felt I didn't fit in. And I started writing fiction, at…

— Kim Brooks

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped…

— Azar Nafisi

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes…

— Ian Mcewan

After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the…

— Chang-Rae Lee