Books Quote by Cornelia Funke

“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled…

— Nema Al-Araby

“Of course, the marvels you hoped to find might not be waiting inside the covers, so then you closed the book, sorry that its…

— Cornelia Funke

“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“I bleed myself to be your drink: Is not the blood of poets—ink?”

— William Soutar

“to hell with literature we want something redblooded”

— E.E. Cummings

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the…

— John Boyne

“Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.”

— Jarod Kintz

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

“Autopsychography The poet is a man who feigns And feigns so thoroughly, at last He manages to feign as pain The pain he really…

— FERNANDO PESSOA

“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book…

— Clive Barker