Books Quote by Michael McDowell

“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting air, breathing…

— Ksenia Anske

“I’m working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.’ ‘Hasn’t someone already written that one?”

— Jo Nesbø

“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such a book?”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“You spend hours wrestling with yourself, trying to keep your vision intact, your intensity undiminished. Sometimes I have to stick my head under the…

— David Sedaris

“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.”

— Jasper Fforde

“Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.”

— Jo Linsdell

“Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning…

— Joe Queenan

“The cover is alluring. The beginning may be enthralling. But there's no culmination and no happy ending. So I sagely advise you to stop…

— S. Ann Cole

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a…

— Julianna Baggott

“(You wouldn’t be reading this book if I hadn’t convinced my publisher that I was enough of a pseudo-extrovert to promote it.)”

— Susan Cain

“A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.”

— Travis McDade

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa