Book Quote by Wambui Ngabura

“Seated, lost for where to begin (not how to begin) this book gets birthed”

— Carol Wambui Ngabura

“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do?…

— Erin Blakemore

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

— Charlotte Bronte

“When you start writing, you may think you will use the book to guide readers down certain paths and through certain themes. But, the…

— M.D. Cliatt

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In this course I have tried to reveal the mechanism of those wonderful toys — literary masterpieces. I have tried to make of you…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or ruin me…

— Kim Hotzon

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

— David Hume

“A book is a living, breathing thing. It spends the first chapters of its life curled up in the mind, symbiotic with its creator…

— Emily Murdoch

“Waiting for a book to be published is like having a baby. It would be nine months before we heard the patter of tiny…

— Anonymous

“the perversity is not lost on me that the most oft-cited, well-respected, best-selling books about the caretaking of babies—Winnicott, Spock, Sears, Weissbluth— have been…

— Maggie Nelson