Books Quote by Clayton J. Callahan

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart

Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a…

— Anonymous

“Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!”

— Carolyn Hockley

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel…

— Cassandra Clare

“Forget all those prescriptive ideas about "the novel" and "literature" and set down your feelings and thoughts as they come to you, freely, in…

— Haruki Murakami

“It's because of the way you are. It's why you're happy reading novels. You're only comfortable with a piece of the world that you…

— Lan Samantha Chang

“I Love Books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story…

— Elizabeth Scott

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

“Oftentimes when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much, I don't want…

— Lisa Schroeder