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
Frank Warren
The book that set a course. At The Book Thing in Baltimore I saw a man persistently searching over the used-book shelves. More
Gregory Maguire
One of the reasons HarperCollins has been my most frequent publisher for thirty-three years is that I admired three children’s books published by Harper & Row within a year of each other (the year I was turning nine). More
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Why do I read? Seriously? I’m supposed to provide an intelligent answer? More
Eloisa James
The simple answer is that I love a happy ending. More
Meg Cabot
I write because of readers like Diana Moreno, who handed me a letter recently telling me that, as the firstborn daughter of immigrants, she felt lonely and shy when she arrived here in 2004 . . . until she found my books. More
Dorothea Benton Frank
You’ve asked me to tell you why I write but I think the answer might be longer than the fifty or one hundred words you’ve allotted me. More
Stacy Gregg
Each time the love is different. You meet-cute on the first page. More
Tessa Duder
This week, I’ve been with Elena Ferrante in Naples, travelling The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan... More
Deborah Challinor
I read to escape, whether the genre is crime, historical, dystopian, thriller, or biography. More
Michele A’Court
I read because I want to live more than one life. Books take us out of ourselves into a whole other world. More
Sanjay Suri
Why I read . . . Because I can live many lives in one, and travel many worlds in one. More
V. Raghunathan
Mark Twain’s quote “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read” had a significant influence on me in my early years, which helped me take to reading seriously. More
Karthika Nair
Books that influenced me: Haroun and the Sea of Stories. More
Namita Gokhale
I read to share the world, to treasure words, to learn and intuit and recognise experiences to which I have no direct access. More
M. J. Akbar
Why I read: To learn. More
Pallavi Aiyyar
I read to travel within and to range wide beyond my limited firsthand experiences. More
RaeAnne Thayne
I write because I love knowing my stories bring people joy. More
Gena Showalter
I read for the same reason I write. More
Diana Palmer
The first romance novel I ever read was Margaret Way’s Red Cliffs of Malpara. More
Susan Mallery
When I write, I have a specific reader in mind. More
Mary Kubica
I read to transport myself. More
Brenda Jackson
Of all the books I’ve read, it was a romance story that influenced me the most. More
Kristan Higgins
A book that influenced me and why . . . Little House on the Prairie. More
Heather Graham
Why I read . . .Books are simply magic. More
B. J. Daniels
I grew up in Montana on stories around the campfire so it’s no surprise that I love to read—and write my own. More
Robyn Carr
Writing changes me, teaches me, broadens me, and makes me more aware. More
Lis Wiehl
I have a confession to make: I am a mindless reader. More
Lysa TerKeurst
I’ll never forget going through Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby and Victory Over the Darkness by Neil Anderson simultaneously as a new Christian. More
Lee Strobel
Why do I write? I write because I read. More
Dave Ramsey
When young leaders in my organization ask me what they can do to grow, my first response is always pretty obvious: read! More
Jen Hatmaker
By the time I was ten, I’d probably read The Secret Garden thirty times. More
Bob Goff
What I like the most when I read books are the surprise endings. More
John Eldredge
I write for the same reasons I read—for pleasure, for wonder, but mostly to sort things out. More
Jefferson Bethke
Reading books to me is one of the biggest joys in all of life. More
Rosemary Sullivan
I write out of compulsion. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner,” as Alan Sillitoe remarked—the exhilaration and discipline of the run; the finish line unknown until you get there. More
Charlotte Gray
A book that influenced me and why: Middlemarch by George Eliot. More
Emma Donoghue
Like many teenagers, I spent more of my summer holidays than I probably should have immersed in the world of The Lord of the Rings. More
Jay Onrait
I read because as much as I love film and television, and documentaries, and Facebook, and Twitter and Snapchat, and my abacus . . . More
Heather O’Neill
A book that influenced me and why: A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais More
Frances Itani
I write because I am happiest when I am in what Tillie Olsen once described to me as “that bless’ed state.” More
Lawrence Hill
Writing is the one pursuit I have always pursued, and always known I was compelled to pursue. More
Matt Haig
It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More
Cathy Marie Buchanan
I write because I’m compelled to create and writing is the act that best satisfies the itch. More
