Book Quote by J. K. Rowling

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The desire to write grows with writing.

— Desiderius Erasmus

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard…

— Ted Bell

In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think,…

— Ron Rash

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

Why do I write? I guess that's been asked of every writer. I don't know. It isn't any massive compulsion.

— Rod Serling

“For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our passion is…

— Lewis Buzbee

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that…

— Naguib Mahfouz

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love…

— Ashwin Sanghi