Book Quote by Sylvia Plath

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as…

— Meg Cabot

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

— Daniel Kahneman

There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them.…

— Dave Barry

I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

— Andre Maurois

I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.

— Anderson Cooper

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

— James McCosh

“There is no point in having the idea for a wonderful novel if you have never learned to read and write.”

— Ursula Markham

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

— Tom Schulman

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as…

— Michelle Dean