Books Quote by D. H. Lawrence

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

— Jesse Ball

“A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think?

— Elbert Hubbard

I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.

— Anthony Doerr

No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I…

— Elizabeth Kostova

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

— Daniel Craig

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

— Irwin Shaw

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be…

— Diane Johnson

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents…

— Elizabeth Berg

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one…

— Stephen King

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

— Anonymous