Able Quote by Jack Lemmon

Reading is a pleasure, yes, but not without effort: choosing to read novels purely because they mirror your own experience is stultifying.

— Dawn Foster

It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try…

— Jami Attenberg

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about writing for…

— Josh Prince

As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If…

— John Edgar Wideman

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

— Adriana Trigiani

If I'm scared of something there's more incentive for me to do it.

— Julia Fox

I believe that when you really want to do something, you should go ahead and do it. I mean, I feel fear, but I…

— Tom Ford

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

— Michel Houellebecq

I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader…

— Helen Garner

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well…

— Dodie Smith

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as…

— Anna Quindlen