Book Quote by Megan Abbott

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

— Jonah Goldberg

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

— James M. Cain

I think overtly political novels - those that never transcend or contest their author's conscious intentions and prejudices - are problematic. This is not…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who…

— John Farndon

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that…

— Mary Kingsley

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.

— Keisha Buchanan

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

— Janet Evanovich

My sense of what a book should be has changed so radically. I like to think for the better.

— E. L. Doctorow

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them.…

— Dave Barry

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no…

— Sheri S. Tepper

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and…

— Arundhati Roy

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a…

— Arnold Toynbee