Books Quote by John Deaton

“Because with a really good book you get something new every time you read it. Because…Well…Because you're a different person each time.”

— Derrolyn Anderson

“...when you talk about books everything seems different. More beautiful, I guess.”

— Andrej Blatnik

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”

— Katherine Paterson

“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.”

— Kristen Ashley

“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“Because—and don’t let anybody tell you different—novel writing is mostly triage (this now, that later) and obstinacy.”

— Richard Russo

“writing a novel is extremely complicated. So complicated, in fact, that you cannot possibly hold your entire novel in your head all at once.…

— Nathan Bransford

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

“I feel there's nothing like a good classic book, except possibly its movie version.”

— George Kohlman