Book Quote by Alan Weisman

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

— Cindy Sherman

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

— Paul Valery

I feel like I could write a thousand books about the outdoors and natural history and the landscape.

— Steven Rinella

The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and…

— Jodi Picoult

Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.

— Jean Craighead George

A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the dolphin killings in Japan.

— Peter Heller

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just…

— Ellen Page

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

— John Gimlette

I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all…

— Andi Oliver

I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world,…

— Jo Walton