Book Quote by Will Self

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

— China Mieville

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by…

— Anonymous

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

— Charles Lamb

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead.

— Tinsley Mortimer

It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book never quite…

— Danielle Dutton

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to…

— Dean Koontz

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

— Judy Blume

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely…

— Andrea Dworkin

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have…

— Ethan Canin

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau