Attitude Quote by Lev Grossman

Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the…

— E. L. Doctorow

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

— David McCullough

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike…

— Lloyd Alexander

My passion for books has changed my life.

— Marley Dias

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart…

— Markus Zusak

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to…

— Nathan Englander