Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was — losing myself in these imaginary worlds.

Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace.

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.

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.

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.

I love reading almost as much as I love writing.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

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 want to write books.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

Some people read. I like to put words together.

I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

Love fanfic or hate it, it's getting thousands of people to read and write who otherwise would not have.

To some degree, I consider myself a writer, and so I have a strong relationship with literature.

When I write, I operate as a writer and a reader both - I never know what's going to happen.

I'm a big reader. And I take a lot of pictures, do a lot of writing.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.