Books Quote by Steve Kurtz

“Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?”

— Diane Setterfield

“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book,…

— Suzanne Selfors

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

“Calvin had been frozen for almost 300 years. After that, he had been quarantined to a laboratory for several days, fed kitten, insulted by…

— Brian Cramer

“Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.”

— Casper Silk

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder,…

— Clive James

“In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there.…

— Jane Yolen

“There comes a time in every man’s life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle…

— Steven Hardesty

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.”

— John Green

“He was the kind of man who lit the world on fire and then fanned the flames so it burned hotter.”

— Evelyn Adams