Affiliation Quote by Nicholson Baker

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every time a…

— Tony Buzan

Books are peculiar. When you write one, you also have to find things that make headlines.

— Luca Toni

People buy books to own knowledge and have others see them as people of knowledge.

— Donna Pomona

“It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of…

— Geraldine Brooks

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

— Edward Hirsch

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what…

— Alice Mattison

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is…

— Annabelle Selldorf

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

— Guy Kawasaki

It's hard to get in the head of somebody. The closest we can get is through the words they've left behind, either their contemporary…

— H. W. Brands

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley