It's not the shape,cover, or length of the book that…

“Never judge the length of a book by it's spine!”

— Stephanie Bates

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for…

— Stephen King

I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little…

— Joe Hill

“This is what matters to me: the story of the scholarship boy who returns home one summer from college to discover bewildering silence, facing…

— Richard Rodriguez

“Stories are factual...If a man and his story are in conflict it is the man who must change…In America it is the man who…

— Adam Johnson

As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how…

— Andrew Lam

There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

— Maggie Stiefvater

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may…

— Margaret Atwood

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter

Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you…

— Italo Calvino

“The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read…

— Ann Hood

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

— Holly Smale

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

— Jay Williams

Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer