Book Quote by M.D. Cliatt

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

“When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly you are…

— LaQuita Cameron

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.”

— Mark Rubinstein

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

“When I come home and look back through my Book of Books I see a personal narrative I didn’t recognize at the time. I…

— Pamela Paul

“You know that feeling when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel…

— Cassandra Clare

“Every book begins and ends with other people- the readers who suggest the book to us and encourage us to read it, the talented…

— Donalyn Miller

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…

— Steve Erickson