Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie”

— Jim Denney

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five…

— Thomas Dubay

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or…

— Sam Abell

We don't choose the books we write; they choose us.

— Miriam Toews

“A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator…

— Emily Murdoch

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

— Samuel Butler

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator…

— Victor Hugo

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

“Books change us. They excite us, they compel us to question, to fight, to believe in the possibility of the improbable; they are the…

— T.S. Tate

“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is…

— Umberto Eco

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one…

— Juan Rulfo

“Creation is either the result of an eternal, personal, and intelligent being or the accidental effect of eternal, impersonal, and mindless matter with unknowable…

— Dan DeWitt