About Quote by Gretchen Rubin

I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one…

— Larry Ellison

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was…

— Mary MacLane

I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to…

— Jill Lepore

I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.

— David Droga

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

— Luke Ford

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

— Dan Simmons

To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived.

— Amanda Knox

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought…

— Anonymous

I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.

— James Salter

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

— Anthony Bourdain

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters,…

— Anne Rice

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

— Adriana Trigiani