Believe Quote by J. K. Rowling

If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes…

— Julien Green

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if…

— George Eliot

All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just seemed so…

— Phil Elverum

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…

— Alberto Manguel

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.

— Frank Peretti

The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long…

— Miranda July

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

— Paul Theroux

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the…

— Jennifer Weiner

A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to…

— Chad Harbach