Thomas Wolfe Quotes

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.

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

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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 love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

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.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

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.

I love writing about young people.

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being.

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.