Discovering Quote by David Nicholls

“(She) could have read for hours, except that recently she had discovered holes and crevices between the words which she immediately had to fill…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully…

— Lisa Scottoline

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“We were supposed to be studying literature together. Instead I wanted to take her off the shelf, crack her open, and read the shit…

— Kendall Ryan

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its…

— Cornelia Funke

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or…

— Alice Munro

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

“She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...”

— Dawn Tripp

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

— Markus Zusak

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.

— Ian Mcewan