Books Quote by Rowan Pelling

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise…

— Tom Rachman

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

— Debra Hamel

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put…

— Shelby Lynne

I have readers everywhere: from a radiologist who decides to compliment me on my writing while inserting a probe to check my ovaries to…

— Twinkle Khanna

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to know how…

— Jules Feiffer

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I love talking with elderly people.

— Audra McDonald

I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as…

— Marya Hornbacher

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a…

— Mike Krzyzewski

“I know this is one of the unthinkable taboos of our society, but I had discovered in myself a talent for a wonderful, unrepentant…

— Tana French