Book Quote by Greg van Eekhout

“Writing a book is both rewarding and inspiring The preparation, research and introduction of new chapters to an ever increasing text provides enormous excitement…

— Roy Taylor

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you…

— Neil Cross

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art…

— James Franco

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured…

— Garth Greenwell

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say,…

— Frank Peretti

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

— Lurlene McDaniel

If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver,…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of…

— Flann O'Brien