Book Quote by Mike Carey

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best subject matter…

— Wallace Stegner

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

— Robert Sylvester

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

— Sara Sheridan

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

— Alice Hoffman

“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you…

— Emily Maguire

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it…

— Avi

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like…

— James Patterson

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J. K. Rowling

“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still…

— Umberto Eco