Books Quote by Dawn O'Porter

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen.…

— Etgar Keret

“Books have always been my escape - where I go to bury my nose, hone my senses, or play the emotional tourist in a…

— Jodie Foster

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

When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts,…

— Jodie Foster

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you…

— David Levithan

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a…

— Jon Katz

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used…

— Marge Piercy

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between…

— Jill Soloway

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer.…

— Garrett Hedlund

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

— Margaret Stohl

Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the…

— Gloria Naylor