Book Quote by Charles de Lint

Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines.

— Luca Toni

I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I…

— Rob Lowe

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

— Francine Prose

Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper,…

— Ina Coolbrith

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it…

— Melissa Febos

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

— Richard Harris

I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it.…

— Larry Winget

Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what…

— Azgraybebly Josland

And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the…

— Rick Riordan

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

— Tucker Max

That's what I like most about writing fiction over journalism: the easy metaphors!

— Michael Connelly