Beer Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

— Aravind Adiga

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about…

— Charles Stross

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

— Margaret Bourke-White

When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it from memory…

— Jonathan Dee

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

— China Mieville

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and…

— J. G. Ballard

“an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where…

— Cornelia Funke

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and…

— Mario Vargas Llosa