Adam Grant Quotes

You can't write if you don't read.

I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love.

While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.'

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

All the guys at Marvel are really passionate, and they love entertaining folks, and they really think about the story, and there's a lot of thought that goes into that.

I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen to be a funny guy.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He'd even have the old boys in the back of the room snorting and jumping up and down.

I'm just someone who likes making lots of things up and trying to be funny. That's about it.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

I just love fiction. I love it.

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.