There were some books that reached through the noise of…

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Because only the truest things always are true because they can't be true”

— e.e. cummings

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

— Alec Baldwin

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

— Christopher Buehlman

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

— Markus Herz

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro