Book Quote by Debra Dixon

“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at a given…

— Phillip Lewis

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist…

— Russell Banks

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

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

What is ultimately motivating the character?

— Matt Bomer

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

— Dalai Lama

“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than…

— Rebecca Caudill

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan

The key to motivation is motive.

— Stephen Covey

I truly believe motivation is internal, but there are so many things that happen externally, and it's hard to not pick that up as…

— Mohamed Bamba

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

— Will Hobbs