Book Quote by James Frey

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought…

— Melissa Febos

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may…

— Goldie Hawn

I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had…

— Akhil Sharma

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something…

— Gary Shteyngart

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use…

— Ayelet Waldman

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the…

— Michael Chabon

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

— William Peter Blatty

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

— Terrell Owens

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format…

— Jackie French

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin