Author Quote by Rumer Godden

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have…

— Rumer Godden

The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a…

— Mel White

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a…

— Eva Ibbotson

There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him…

— Robert Benchley

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

— Michael Lewis

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him…

— Robert Benchley

“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's…

— Haruki Murakami

“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any author who…

— Haruki Murakami

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen