Book Quote by Karin Slaughter

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

— Richard Paul Evans

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know,…

— Blake Crouch

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

— James Rollins

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I…

— Irvine Welsh

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just…

— Dan Mangan

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.

— Kate Atkinson

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

— Tracy Chevalier

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting…

— Van Morrison

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain