Books Quote by Michael Morpurgo

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still…

— Elif Batuman

When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired…

— Anonymous

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of…

— Stephenie Meyer

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able…

— Anne-Marie

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary…

— Brad Listi

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly…

— Robert Morgan

“I have sometimes told people, probably wrongly, that there’s no point in writing at all if you don’t feel that there’s something you absolutely…

— Scarlett Thomas

For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me.

— Jack Dann

I cannot and don't really want to control my mind, soul, or heart when I write and must recognize that I don't think about…

— Lidija Dimkovska

I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty.…

— David Guterson