All night Quote by Will Rogers

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.

— Ron Chernow

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well,…

— Barbara Bush

[John Adams] diary, of course, is even more revealing of his feelings. Both his letters to [his wife] Abigail and his diary tell us…

— Gordon S. Wood

When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the…

— Jake Tapper

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an…

— Matt de la Pena

“I've glued the letter directly into my diary, as it's so staggeringly imbecilic that any attempt to summarize its contents would make my brain…

— Tim Collins

“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.…

— Sarah Manguso

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat…

— Karl Marlantes

I read 'The Washington Post' every day from a very young age. Reading the newspaper taught me how to organize my thoughts on the…

— George Pelecanos