Books Quote by Chris Baty

“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all the terrible…

— Mark Leyner

“I’m fond of joking that when I get stuck in writing, I’ll kill a character or blow something up (in the novel…usually).”

— Beth Revis

“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they see something…

— Jane Brooke

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”

— T.S. Eliot

“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]”

— Michael Chabon

“It's a funny thing, really, me publishing a book… I've had so many people tell me it was stupid or impossible or that I…

— Molly Lynn Robinson

“If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to…

— Richard Denney

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. Also,…

— E. Lockhart

“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.”

— Thomas King

“A writer should be read, not seen, as they seldom are a joy to the eye. ”

— Katarina Anhava