Book Quote by Carmen Agra Deedy

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems…

— Virginia Woolf

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel…

— Ernest Hemingway

“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you…

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

— Anonymous

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

— Anton Chekhov

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

— Nancy Pearl

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

— Daniel Pennac

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

— Anonymous

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

— Richard Harris