Book Quote by James Salter

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of…

— Raymond Chandler

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite…

— Bruce Springsteen

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a…

— Romola Garai

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

— Jed Mercurio

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you…

— Alissa Nutting

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

I never understood how one could write a whole book: It is so technically challenging, and it's incredible the way writers put entire worlds…

— Ben Howard

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured…

— Garth Greenwell

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

— Raymond Chandler

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your…

— Yann Martel

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters