Admit Quote by Matt de la Pena

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

— Alice Paul

I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

— Rainbow Rowell

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

— Louise Mensch

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

— Ron Chernow

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

— Daniel Pennac

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

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

— J. K. Rowling

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

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

— Jen Lancaster

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first…

— L. Frank Baum

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon