Book Quote by Stephen Sondheim

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

— Cyril Connolly

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

— Umberto Eco

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

— Christopher Koch

“How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes…

— James J. Kilpatrick

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a…

— Carol Higgins Clark

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask,…

— John Edgar Wideman

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it…

— James Russell Lowell

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

— Thomas Perry