Books Quote by John Green

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's…

— John Green

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded.”

— Anonymous

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury

“The only bad book was a book that didn't have any pages in it.”

— Chelsea M. Cameron

“Now he only had an abstract interest in what was surrounding him, as though none of this was happening to him, but he was…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky

“Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.”

— Holly Black

“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of everyone who…

— Mary Stewart Atwell

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

— Gene Fowler