Megan Abbott Quotes

I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

When I was very little my mother would read to me in bed. She gave me a fascination for stories, and for the music in words.

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'

I love to read aloud.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Literature has always been a part of my life. I studied history and literature in college. My mother is a novelist; I grew up around books.

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

I absolutely love reading.

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.

I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel disappears, because the novel is really one of the only places in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't made up. This is because real life is under no obligation to be convincing.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

For me, the experience of making the show is very much like being in a novel. I enjoy getting the new script. I make a cup of tea and I read it the same way I would read a book, with the same amount of joy.

Books are a habit-forming drug.

You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about.

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.