Book Quote by Michael Cunningham

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel…

— Dean Koontz

Your book may be a masterpiece but do not suggest that to the publisher because many of the most hopeless manuscripts that have come…

— Stanley Unwin

A novel is a journey into your own soul, and you seek there to discover those things that you share with all others.

— Richard Flanagan

I read just endlessly, ceaselessly, almost every book, it seems!

— Alice Paul

“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences…

— Anonymous

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as…

— Meg Cabot

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as…

— Anonymous

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon