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

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

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 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 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.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.

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.

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.

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

I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Books, the children of the brain.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

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

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I love books, and I love to read, and I had ideas for books that I thought would be neat to read.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

I read mostly poetry.