And love Quote by Morris West

“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you…

— Anthony Doerr

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind…

— Eddie Trunk

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

I love deliberately badly written books.

— Richard Prince

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

— Dean Koontz

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life we live.…

— John Updike

There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were up to…

— Essie Davis

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

— Lee Child

“I was driven to go into book writing by the very nature of journalism and blogging. Both are ephemeral. Journalists and bloggers can have…

— Barista Uno

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never…

— Catherine Deneuve