Firsts Quote by Nelson DeMille

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by…

— Paul Theroux

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

— Rupert Holmes

I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

— Debbie Harry

I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a…

— Twinkle Khanna

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort…

— Eavan Boland

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to…

— Zadie Smith

Reading gave me great comfort and pleasure. When I started being able to write, around seven or eight, I wanted to be able to…

— Lynne Tillman

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Reading, like writing, was a survival strategy when I was young because these were ways of feeling that my world could be much larger…

— Leigh Bardugo

As I get older, I find the things that I thought would be sorted by now aren't. The idea of writing stuff like that…

— Ol Parker