Book Quote by Umberto Eco

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

— Jean Rhys

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

“An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there…

— Roy Blount Jr

And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger,…

— Paul Auster

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

— Julia Alvarez

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us…

— Harry Mazer

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

“Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels like it…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

— Italo Calvino