Believe Quote by Sheila Heti

My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am…

— James Salter

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I…

— Paul Auster

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

— Maxwell Perkins

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

— Robert Crais

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.

— Thomas Perry

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

— Maurice Sendak

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

— Terri Windling

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

— Anonymous

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George