Books Quote by Scott Turow

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a…

— Dawn Powell

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

— Wentworth Miller

Sometimes novels are considered 'important' in the way medicine is - they taste terrible and are difficult to get down your throat, but are…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I loved the book [The Adderall Diaries] I optioned it, I think some years ago. But there's a lot of different threads in the…

— James Franco

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

It's a terrible poison, writing.

— A. S. Byatt

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl

I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

— Charlotte Dacre

“And it seems there is such a grand murder in the paper–you must find it and read it to me, girls; a whole family…

— Emily Eden

“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.”

— Anonymous-9

“When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don’t have that poison, your story…

— Haruki Murakami

Drugs, what a devil-inspired poison! It’s death on the installment plan.

— David Wilkerson