Book Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the…

— Stephen King

“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it is as…

— Alberto Manguel

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Not every book is for every reader.

— Meg Waite Clayton

“If you should stick only to what you know, we should worry about the thousands of authors who write about murder. If”

— Roz Morris

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

“It would finally be a book that excluded no one. And then when all the world's people had been singled out and praised for…

— Ben Marcus

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake…

— Franz Kafka

“And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the…

— John Boyne

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.”

— Brandon Sanderson