Abandon Quote by Rob Thomas

When I was a teenager I decided I was going to be a writer and that nothing was going to stop me. It sounds…

— Markus Zusak

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my…

— Katherine Paterson

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to…

— Maya Angelou

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

— James Joyce

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin

Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the…

— Gloria Naylor

I loved reading when I was young. I was just completely taken by stories. And I remember taking that into English literature at school…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of…

— Adam Ross

By the time I got to college I had stopped reading books because I wanted to "be cool" and started reading books simply because…

— Simon Rich