Reading Quote by Robert Harris

“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few…

— Mary Shelley

“I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the wold until…

— Nick Hornby

“I don't sit here and make these stories up. They are delivered to me, over time, by some relentless and shadowy demand. Trust me,…

— Julian Lorr

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley

“So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be…

— Edward Abbey

“At nightfall I return home and enter my study. There on the threshold I remove my dirty, mud-spattered clothes, slip on my regal and…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the…

— C.S. Lewis

“As you climb to success over the dead, don't alienate the living.”

— Kris Waldherr

“I want my writings to inspire and awaken. I have no interest in spinning silly tales for money. I want to fish deep down…

— José N. Harris

“Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into…

— Fay Weldon

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all…

— Joyce Wadler