Feelings Quote by Richard Russo

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

— Sharon M. Draper

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted…

— Rita Dove

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in.

— Elliot Perlman

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

— Karin Slaughter

I never really thought I'd be writing a book.

— Nate Bargatze

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

— Karin Slaughter

You won't find a publisher until you have written the book and you won't find the time till you sit down, stay down, and…

— Carol Drinkwater

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

— Jane Austen

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

— Jane Gardam

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it…

— Iain Sinclair