Book Quote by Alexander Payne

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look…

— Dai Sijie

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

— Patrick Ness

Novels allow me to create a whole world.

— Ntozake Shange

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it…

— Avi

The only way to write a novel is to proceed as if you had all the time in the world.

— Philip Gerard

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to…

— Richard Russo

I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I'm done with one, I'm ready to discover a totally different…

— Jennifer Egan

I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.

— Amy Waldman

I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate…

— Anonymous

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole…

— David Christian

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

— William Goldman