Books Quote by Jack Kingsman

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Now I’ve given up any hope of lasting fame or literary perfection. I don’t care if I write a great book anymore, but just…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“I would never re-write you. You are by far my most complete and greatest novel.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no longer truly…

— Julie Bertagna

“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so best to…

— Patrick deWitt

“The way you start writing is by writing. Over and over again I have proven this to myself but I always forget it the…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette