Book Quote by Chinua Achebe

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

— Tryon Edwards

Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of…

— Jonathan Raban

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

I wanted to live among books.

— Alberto Manguel

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who…

— Rebecca Mead

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

— Alice Walker

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view,…

— George Murray

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

— Tony Hillerman

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler