Book Quote by Arthur Koestler

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

— Raymond Chandler

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good…

— John Irving

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

— Elizabeth Bowen

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.”

— Lucas J. Robak

“...a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might…

— Alain de Botton

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer…

— Tania James

“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”

— Elizabeth Knox

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

“Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to…

— Claire Cook

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

— Rebecca Solnit

“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.”

— Kersten Hamilton