Lynne Graham
What I love the most about writing is that it allows me to create my own world, filled with characters that fascinate me. More
Michael Chabon
The first writer that I really fell in love with was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in particular his Sherlock Holmes stories, and the first story that I ever wrote was a Sherlock Holmes story. More
Anthony Doerr
We are all mapmakers: We embed our memories everywhere, inscribing a private and intensely complicated latticework across the landscape. More
Hilary Mantel
I read out of hope and avid curiosity, and in an attempt to live in other times, and inhabit bodies that are not my own. More
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
One life is not enough. More
Cathy Glass
I have always been a writer. More
Tracy Chevalier
I read because I want to know what it’s like to look at the world through someone else’s eyes, and reading is a remarkably efficient and vigorous way of doing that. More
Lauren Weisberger
A book that influenced me and why . . . Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume was incredibly influential to me as a child. More
Cecelia Ahern
I write because I feel compelled to. More
Barbara Taylor Bradford
When I say I have the need to write, I do mean need. More
Cally Taylor
When I get an idea for a novel the fizz of excitement I feel is electrifying. More
Jack Higgins
Why I write: Some years ago, although enjoying great success, I was accused by certain literary critics of repeating myself too much in my work. More
Lionel Shriver
Why I write: To find out what I think. More
Stuart MacBride
I write because I love to read. More
Rita Williams-Garcia
My childhood reading helped to build me from the inside. More
Veronica Roth
I read because reading changes you. More
Kevin Henkes
James Dean
Robin Preiss Glasser
Sara Pennypacker
I write because the really good stuff—how funny and beautiful the world is, even when it’s not; More
Katherine Paterson
I read because I want more than one life, and books give me a limitless number of lives—lives that are different from the one I was born into. More
Lauren Oliver
I read so that I can learn and I write so that I can explore. More
Garth Nix
Reading is to live More
Cammie McGovern
As the younger sister of an adored (sometimes overly perfect) sister, discovering Ramona and Beezus and the gang on Klikitat Street was a life-changer for me. More
Patricia MacLachlan
I read as a child to find out what I thought, what I wished for, and what scared me. More
Francesca Lia Block
It has been said that only two things helped survivors of the Holocaust: 1) massage and 2) telling their stories. More
Thanhha Lai
I read because I dream of having a super power. More
Gordon Korman
I read to be astounded by other writers’ ideas. More
Dan Gutman
The book that influenced me the most was not even written by an author. More
Soman Chainani
Whatever psychic wounds have turned me into a writer I am thankful for. More
Kiera Cass
Reading has always been a safe place for me. More
Eric Carle
I read to understand. More
Jenna Bush Hager
I read because it’s in my DNA. More
Victoria Aveyard
Reading, writing, and story have always been my gateway. More
Katherine Applegate
I write to see where I’ve already been. More
Jane O’Connor
I really have no hobbies—nearly all of my leisure time is spent with a good book. More
James Rollins
I owe my mother everything. More
Anne Hillerman
I read to take a mini-vacation in my own living room, to go back in history, forward in time, or to a place I love and had forgotten. More
Shilpi Somaya Gowda
At every stage of life, since being a kid with a flashlight under the covers, reading has always been my favorite activity. More
Geronimo Johnson
I write to unread what has been written about me in error and with malice. More
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dear HarperCollins: You ask me, “Why do you read? Why do you write?” Well, I mean, duh. More
Joe Hill
Our lives are increasingly crowded by the instruments of distraction. More
Neil Gaiman
I read to travel, and to learn. More
Jacqueline Winspear
I read because I love language, the way the joining of words and the rhythm of a story can make me laugh, cry, or take me out of my world or immerse me in the lives of others. More
Mary Karr
I read to save my life, to take communion, to enter a community of fellow sufferers and rejoicers. More
Bernard Cornwell
The most magical phrase I knew as a child was “Once upon a time” because those four words meant a story was coming. More
Kimberly McCreight
I write because I want answers. More
Dan Harris
I used to read to lead a lot of fiction, mostly for the escape—to be transported to other places and times. More
Tom Robbins
I write to twine ideas and images into big subversive pretzels of life, death, and goofiness—on the chance that, like the Trickster figure in tribal myths, they might help keep the world lively and give it the flexibility to endure. More
T. C. Boyle
I read in the way that I breathe, as a necessity of life. More
