Another Quote by Anonymous

In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola…

— Maud Newton

A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance…

— Michael Silverblatt

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

— Meg Cabot

There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly…

— Eudora Welty

“I thought about the people I had met who were in pain but were pretending that everything was fine. And I thought, this is…

— Julie Schumacher

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure of books.…

— Diane Setterfield

I have always felt that books help me feel less alone in the world. They make our lives bigger - they help us to…

— Lisa Lucas

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic.

— Michael Dirda

When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands,…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

— Scott Snyder