Draw Quote by Patrick O'Brian

I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.

— Leon Uris

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories,…

— Michael Winter

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

— John Larroquette

I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading…

— Henry Rollins

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

— Kate Adie

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

— Dean Koontz

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study…

— Stephen King

At 45, I am too young to write my memoirs.

— Pooja Bhatt

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

— Brian Lumley

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

— Ray Bradbury