Time Quote by Richard Brautigan

“I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were.…

— Wendell Berry

“No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to be such…

— Jennifer Loren

“I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.”

— Malcolm X

“I was always, luckily, only a reader.”

— Josef Škvorecký

“I did not think about what sort of people might read it. In fact, I was writing it for myself.”

— Gao Xingjian

“I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world,…

— Sophie Weston

“I did not want to spend my time reading about people who never were, doing things they never did.”

— Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

“I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and…

— Dorothy Allison

“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old letters one…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

“Maybe not for anyone else, but for me, the kind of person I am, writing meant an attempt to sneak up on the truth,…

— Dorothy Allison