Book Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover…

— John Fowles

“Like reading, writing takes me to places I would otherwise never be able to go.”

— Bea Cannon

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully…

— Lisa Scottoline

“There's a very thin line that separates readers and writers. You make a leap over that line when there’s a book you want to…

— Alice Hoffman

“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and not writing…

— Jincy Willett

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.”

— Kami Garcia

“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”

— Anthony Trollope

“I knew I must write a novel. But it seemed an impossible thing to do when I had been trying with great difficulty to…

— Hemingway Ernest