Book Quote by George Saunders

“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it is about…

— Geoff Dyer

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

— Lev Grossman

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

— Janet Fitch

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

— Doris Lessing

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

— Alan Lightman

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

— Salman Rushdie

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

— Jonathan Lethem

It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite…

— Danielle Dutton

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a…

— Anita Desai

There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book twice.

— Brian Stableford

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally…

— William Gibson

Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work on.

— Jay Asher