Books Quote by Iván Mándy

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.”

— Angela Young

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of…

— Jane Smiley

“when I am writing a book, I’ll go to sleep with a plot hole in my story that I don’t know how to fix.…

— Tarryn Fisher

“I have a bad habit of starting a book and reading just far enough to make sure I want to read it and look…

— Raymond Chandler

“In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for…

— Michael Cunningham

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise…

— Umberto Eco

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,”

— Brittainy C. Cherry