Book Quote by Eudora Welty

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural…

— Eudora Welty

I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I…

— Geraldine Brooks

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

Even my wife and two of my children are in "Leaves of Grass". Because I love the source material so much, it was really…

— Edward Norton

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the…

— Ravi Subramanian

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

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

— Norman Maclean

“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to…

— Marisa de los Santos

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

— Charles Hard Townes

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

— Antonio Gaudi