Book Quote by Marguerite Duras

Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk…

— Norman Mailer

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

— Emile M. Cioran

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

— Hal Needham

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out.…

— Mark Twain

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books can, for…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

“If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of…

— J.K. Rowling

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has…

— Frank Bruni

There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear,…

— Rebecca Stead

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I;m convinced that the shattered world has…

— Frank Bruni