Books Quote by Linda Barnes

I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something…

— Michael Ende

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the…

— Kate Morton

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels…

— Dan Chaon

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back…

— Bernard Beckett

I think you’re never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

— Cheryl Tiegs

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and…

— John Updike

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling…

— Diane Setterfield

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

— Elmore Leonard

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into…

— Julie Schumacher

I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as…

— Marya Hornbacher

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

— Daniel Pennac