After Quote by Jake T. Austin

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says…

— Tess Gerritsen

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until…

— Anne McCaffrey

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

— David Hare

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote…

— Zoe Kazan

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I'm not a massive reader, to be honest. I try and fill my time with other things. But I remember getting halfway through a…

— Joe Root

Money by Martin Amis. I read it when I was 15, I read it hundreds of times since then and it always makes me…

— Robert Pattinson

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I write to get myself writing. That and read Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" for the umpteenth time. Certain authors for…

— Dan Chiasson