Book Quote by Truman Capote

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

— Truman Capote

“If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)”

— H.A. Kotys

“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.”

— Love The Stacks Bookstore

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

— Harper Lee

“A great book is the one you dive in and swim until there is no air left, but you keep swimming, forgetting air, breathing…

— Ksenia Anske

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

— Kevin Brockmeier

I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

— Charles Lamb

I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck

— John Steinbeck

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

— Norman Rush

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in…

— Richard Due

In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how…

— Dana Spiotta