Book Quote by Cas Lester

“Books like a box of chocolates; each one sweet and unique!”

— Pamela Tomlin

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have,…

— Donald Richie

“I adore chocolate. I require books. They are like oxygen or water, vital to my existence.”

— Lia Riley

“Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth…

— John Holt

“Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.”

— Solomon Woytowich

“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.”

— Emma Shortt

“I increasingly feel that my writing creates me...I am the invention of my own words~ ”

— Ledo Ivo

“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform the sense…

— Jeanette Winterson

I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.

— Oliver Jeffers

“As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel like the…

— Colleen Hoover

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its…

— Laura Kinsale