Books Quote by César Aira

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I delete the last line, and then the entire paragraph. Lies. I am forgetting that this is not an ordinary novel, that I can’t…

— Alessandra Torre

“I'm telling you, writing the book is easy. The after part will break your back. Not to mention your heart.”

— Suzy Soro

“I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable... it's at those times that I just…

— Dennis Sharpe

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.”

— Lenore Appelhans

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.”

— Virginia Woolf

“I read and re-read the books I had brought. The quality of the book didn’t matter. What was important was that there was reading…

— Sooyong Park

“I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time he…

— Nicole Krauss

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”

— Thomas Ligotti