Books Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work…

— Andrew Sean Greer

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

— Zooey Deschanel

Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of…

— Trenton Lee Stewart

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

— Padgett Powell

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.

— Gillian Cross

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story…

— Jean Houston

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research…

— Caroline Kennedy