Book Motivation Quotes

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won't have to hear them ever again.

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.