Book Quote by Rosemary Clement-Moore

“I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable…

— Donna Tartt

“Answers I began two hundred hours of continuous reading in the twelve hours that remained before examinations. Melvin Bloom my roommate flipped the pages…

— Leonard Michaels

“Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a…

— Sherman Alexie

“Do you know how a gun works?” “They hurt you.” “They can. I shot a bullet into the back of Molly’s head so she…

— Blake Crouch

“The clientele was good for the mental novel she was writing, anyway—she needed a fictional population and she certainly was exposed to it here.…

— J.T. Ellison

“It was the custom, rigidly adhered to," Luke said, turning the brandy in his glass, "for the public executioner, before a quartering, to outline…

— Shirley Jackson

“And suddenly, having waited so long to hold it in my hands, I felt paralyzed to read it. Certainly, I was unable to read…

— Sana Krasikov

“Earlier that day, a typewriter bomb had exploded at a black market skin house over on Eel Street, sending words raining through the cardboard…

— Craig Padawer

“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying images . .…

— Maurice Renard

“I’ve said it’s hard. Here’s how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory’s waters drowns a little. Between chapters of Stop-Time,…

— Mary Karr

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

“But what I wanted to capture was the connection we felt, feel, for each other. And how it enhances our work and, well, um,…

— Wendy Wax