Books Quote by Michael Koryta Download Open image “I started writing as soon as I started reading.” — Michael Koryta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Reading Soon Started Started reading Writing
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
“...what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that,… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
