Beautiful Quote by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what…

— John D. MacDonald

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

“I can tell you that the writing of a book, no matter how deeply, profoundly personal-if it is literature, if you have attended to…

— Dani Shapiro

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities…

— Ken Liu

“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature…

— Bob Smith

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

“I recommend readers to be adventurous and to try things they’ve never heard of or considered reading before. Get out of the comfort zone…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…

— Anne Lamont