Quote

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

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

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I worked so hard all my life, and all I want to do now is read.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.