Book Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to…

— Nicholas Sparks

The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you…

— Berry Gordy

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

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

— Christopher Morley

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are…

— Richard Powers

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

— Zygmunt Bauman

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone…

— Sharon Cameron

It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it…

— Laura Esquivel

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

— Julius Lester

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric…

— Karin Slaughter

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk