Book Quote by Geraldine Brooks

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

— Ellen Hopkins

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

— Morgan Parker

“If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit to memory…

— Lewis Carroll

“To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to…

— Philippa Gregory

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and…

— Sylvia Plath

“Forget all those prescriptive ideas about "the novel" and "literature" and set down your feelings and thoughts as they come to you, freely, in…

— Haruki Murakami

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as…

— Anonymous

“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real…

— Ellen Hopkins