Book Quote by Penelope Lively

“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might…

— C.S. Lewis

I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.

— Grace Slick

If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them.

— Margaret Drabble

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

— George Pelecanos

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

— Simon Singh

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

— Anonymous

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

— Kristin Cashore

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,…

— Bobby Orr

If you Despise of the book dont Dispose of the book

— Kimberly Joina

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

— Rachel Cohn

If you don't write the book, the book ain't gonna get written.

— Tom Clancy