Book Quote by Truman Capote

I don't have a chateau in France. There's no private airplane or yacht.

— Sam Neill

“Kafka’s The Castle came to mind, a book I had not read but that fell into that category of literature that culture reads on…

— Patrick McGuinness

If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises'…

— Blake Crouch

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

— Marlon James

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

— Nalo Hopkinson

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic. They're much…

— Neil Gaiman

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio.…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Ever hear the expression "write what you know?" My version says "write what you want to know." If you want to know about the…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

— Sjon

The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the desert, in…

— Amos Oz