Able Quote by Michael Cunningham

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

— Michael Cunningham

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

— Sara Gruen

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be swallowed up…

— Jim Woodring

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

— Joseph Joubert

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

— Charles Lamb

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I…

— Irvine Welsh

When I was a kid I was a huge reader, I always had a book in my hand.

— Shannon Purser

I try not to let myself get too wrapped up in the image of whatever my books have become in the outside world.

— Sally Rooney

I like to say that I always have a whole book in front of me. I write down the major beats, the major action…

— Leigh Bardugo

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed…

— Stefan Zweig