Books Quote by Richard Peck

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

— Diane Setterfield

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

— John Banville

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

Writing should be testimony to the vast flow of life through us.

— Victor Serge

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

— Mark Strand

“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.”

— M.P. Sharma

“We all write fiction when we write about the past.”

— Stephen King

We write to make sense of it all.

— Wallace Stegner

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

— Kate DiCamillo

I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

— Mandy Patinkin

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle