Books Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“How strange that Scott was partly the impetus for his coming. Oh well, Lord. I guess I shouldn’t try to make sense of it.…

— Kim Cash Tate

“He laughed, but his face was unreadable as he looked at her titles. “Ah, a collection from Sir Walter Scott. Very nice, I’ve always…

— Jess Michaels

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because…

— M.L. Gardner

“Scott's mind was racing, struggling to comprehend the events unfolding around him. They were talking about disposing of Twinkle like he was a rusty…

— R.D. Ronald

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

— Eudora Welty

“He didn't know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over…

— Julia Quinn

“I'm telling you, writing the book is easy. The after part will break your back. Not to mention your heart.”

— Suzy Soro

“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as…

— Andrew Peterson

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or…

— Joan Didion