Books Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its…

— Laura Kinsale

The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that…

— Lucy Dacus

I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling…

— Brian Jacques

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring…

— C. J. Box

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

— Mariska Hargitay

Over a period of time it's been driven home to me that I'm not going to be the most popular writer in the world,…

— Stephen Sondheim

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,…

— James Branch Cabell

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor.

— Christopher Hitchens

Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself…

— Dale Evans

“ I was adopted there for I was not put in a family by random I was chosen i was wanted by another then…

— Michael J Barron

“Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages…

— Janae Mitchell