Benefits Quote by Ted Andrews

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what…

— Nina Bawden

There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then…

— Anais Nin

I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose of the…

— James Frey

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we…

— Kate Mulgrew

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

— Anonymous

I think we're on a journey....It was very easy to write about my past in my book, but writing about the present is all…

— Donna Karan

I do think that how certain individuals gained notoriety in life and permanent historic places in death tells us a lot about the times…

— Jeff Guinn

Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.

— Scott Cunningham

“Reading books exposeses you to different lives”

— Thabiso Monkoe

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody…

— Erik Larson

It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe…

— W. G. Sebald