Book Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I…

— Cheryl Strayed

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

— Christopher Morley

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie…

— Thomas Lennon

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

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to…

— S. E. Hinton

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

— D. H. Lawrence

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We…

— Maureen Corrigan

Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.

— Barbara Pym

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

— Mac Barnett