Book Quote by Jonathan Franzen

You could be writing the book that changes your life.

— Brandon Sanderson

STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the…

— Neil Strauss

Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.

— Bonnie Friedman

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator

“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.”

— Jonathan Franzen

...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.

— Jonathan Franzen

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me,…

— Sandra Cisneros

When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing…

— Per Petterson

“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book…

— Italo Calvino

“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and reading creates…

— Will Schwalbe

The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.

— Anderson Cooper

“It is not only the content of a book that changes you but the shared community with those who have read it, discussed it,…

— Ben Sasse