Books Quote by Paula Spencer Download Open image “My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.” — Paula Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Branches Identity Library Reader Walt Walt Whitman Writing
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was! — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and… — Jessye Norman Copy Share
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Everything that I write, I somehow tie it back into who I am and how I grew up. — Jimmie Allen 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
