Books Quote by Wally Lamb

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,…

— James Frey

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical…

— Cory Doctorow

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new…

— Campbell McGrath

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I…

— Irvine Welsh

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art…

— James Franco

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

— Gillian Cross

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived…

— Rachel Cusk

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to…

— Nathan Englander