Books Quote by Sylvia Plath

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the…

— Ann Patchett

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for…

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

— Sally Rooney

There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers…

— Joy Fielding

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

— Amy Purdy

A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of yourself.

— Janet Fitch

I would love to write a book that opens people's eyes to the more interesting side.

— John Gimlette

I've always wanted to write a book. And it turned out that it was more about finding a story that I felt I was…

— Hank Green

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

— Terry Bradshaw

There are probably a couple of things I'd never write about until everyone I know is dead. And then there's other stuff which nobody…

— Ned Beauman

Someone ought to write a novel about me,

— Catherynne M. Valente