Addiction Quote by Diana Abu-Jaber

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

— Leigh Hunt

“The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took…

— Virginia Woolf

“I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them; like the…

— Sahara Sanders

“There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage…

— Cornelia Funke

“Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the…

— Melissa Hill

“Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food.”

— David Foster Wallace

“To earn bread is important; to taste its sweetness is more important.”

— Qiguang Zhao

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills…

— Edmund White

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells

“but when you held one of those volumes in your hands, you were leafing through another person’s life. Someone else had once loved that…

— Jodi Picoult

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as…

— Roberto Bolaño