Books Quote by Stacey Abrams

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

— Zane Grey

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

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 was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

— Jodie Foster

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

— Rick Perlstein

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

— Helen Dunmore

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

— Ira Glass