Book Quote by Maggie O'Farrell

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

The problem is always hard to get through for the characters in books, whether its facing another's past or accepting their mistakes. But in…

— Chloe Loizeau

Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels…

— Daniel Handler

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a…

— Anita Desai

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.

— Zadie Smith

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.

— Daniel Kahneman

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

— Bill O'Reilly

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because…

— Patrick Modiano

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly,…

— Margaret Atwood

Every time you revisit a book, you get something else out of it.

— Jacqueline Woodson