Book Quote by Kate DiCamillo

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part…

— Susan Sarandon

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch

We grew up as this family of deniers. And people who knew us for years were stunned when "The Great Santini" came out because…

— Terry Gross

“Observe now with what skill, with what art, I make the biggest transition in this book. Observe: my delirium began in the presence of…

— Machado de Assis

“Thanks to Dr Nick Edwards, who helped persuade me to write this book. Feel free to read his book In Stitches. It is like…

— Benjamin Daniels

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an…

— Russell Banks

“To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they…

— Charles Dickens

“Gaudí’s primordial soup, Langdon thought, again startled by how perfectly the city of Barcelona dovetailed with Edmond’s curiosity about the beginnings of life.”

— Dan Brown

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some…

— Don Novello

“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those wonders.”

— Dorothy Allison

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow,…

— Norman Mailer