Books Quote by Donna Tartt

When you read a great book at one point in your life then in another part of your life, when you read the same…

— Keith David

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.

— Jenny Han

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

— Gil Kalai

I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books…

— Danielle Dutton

A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life…

— Pat Conroy

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get…

— Cory Doctorow

I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into…

— Danielle Dutton

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no…

— George Murray

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs…

— David Morrell