Awaken Quote by Jaime Guerard

The idea for a book usually bubbles up from my sub-conscious when I am drifting off to sleep. Each one has started as a…

— Marie Bradby

“Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!”

— Carolyn Hockley

My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my…

— Pat Conroy

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake...

— Haruki Murakami

When I think about how good my book could be, I can hardly breathe.

— Truman Capote

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

— Fannie Hurst

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

— Ben Katchor

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream…

— Barbara Pym

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems…

— Virginia Woolf

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

The more I read, the hungrier I become. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world,…

— Tatiana de Rosnay