Book Quote by Kathy Acker

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

— Mac Barnett

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as…

— Roberto Bolaño

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

— Hilary Mantel

“Montana Promise A McCutcheon Family Novel Book Ten”

— Caroline Fyffe

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

— Maureen Forrester

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

— Kevin J. Anderson

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there…

— John Sayles

The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

For most of my life, when I've finished the book I'm writing, there've always been as many as two or three other novels waiting…

— John Irving

The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…

— Will Oldham

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot…

— Yiyun Li