Book Quote by William Saroyan

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need…

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit…

— Emma Donoghue

It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a Best Seller…

— Christel Tait

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

— Junot Diaz

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning…

— William Boyd

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it,

— Pliny the Elder

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some…

— Martin Luther

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

— Christopher Koch