Book Quote by Joan Larkin

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of…

— Flann O'Brien

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

— V. S. Naipaul

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.…

— V. S. Naipaul

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the…

— Sara Zarr

The process is different for every book, but there are similarities. I always draw from the inside out. I don't plot them ahead of…

— Elizabeth Berg

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

— Lev Grossman

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author --…

— Doris Lessing

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view,…

— George Murray

A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of…

— Isabel Allende