Books Quote by Henning Mankell

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of…

— Henning Mankell

I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands…

— Rebecca Miller

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going…

— Oliver Sacks

“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and…

— Tobias Wolff

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the…

— Elie Wiesel

I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I'm writing…

— Paul Auster

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the…

— Pat Morita

When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote…

— Julia Cameron

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle