Book Quote by Tracy Kidder

I never planned on doing a book about Paul Farmer or his organization. I met him in Haiti when I was on a magazine…

— Tracy Kidder

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

“You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

— Karen Robards

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are…

— Woodrow Wilson

My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life,…

— Khaled Hosseini

“When you're writing a book with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they…

— Roald Dahl

Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

— Cornelia Parker

“Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how can he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and…

— Dostoevsky

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in…

— Vikas Swarup