Books Quote by Keith Rommel

“And soon afterwards this manuscript will appear, my final book... There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the…

— John Boyne

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”

— Vincent Starrett

“The novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before.”

— Zadie Smith

“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

“As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“If nothing else, books are conversations from beyond the grave. Am I anything at all, Reader, besides this manuscript you hold?”

— Daniel Kraus

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.”

— Mark W Boyer