Book Quote by David Guterson

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far,…

— Salman Rushdie

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a…

— Anita Desai

Few of those who fill the world with books, have any pretensions to the hope either of pleasing or instructing. They have often no…

— Samuel Johnson

It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a…

— Virginia Woolf

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they…

— Ron Chernow

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another…

— Gretchen Rubin

It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite…

— Danielle Dutton

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf