Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.
