Books Quote by Michel Faber

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

— Stephen King

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

— Anne Tyler

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

— W. H. Auden

You would have to be very optimistic to think that any of your books will be among the books that survive in the very…

— James Salter

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

— Evan Esar

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or…

— Molly Ringwald

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and…

— Harlan Ellison

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one who made…

— Paul Stanley