
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages. —
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created. —
Paul Smith

I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play. —
Sylvia Plath

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published? —
Ashleigh Brilliant

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? —
Alain De Botton

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. —
Don Winslow

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. —
Clifton Fadiman

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right. —
Groucho Marx

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks? —
Bertolt Brecht

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist. —
Gary Shteyngart

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there. —
Cornelia Funke

I did not want to write just another business book. —
Peter Thiel

St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book?
Anna: I did. Did you?
St. Clair: I like the author's name the best. Ba-nah-na. —
Stephanie Perkins

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both. —
Mara Wilson

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. —
Sam Horn

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. —
Mike Tyson

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' —
Robert M. Pirsig

How can we have revival when we value a book the early Church didn't have over the Holy Spirit they did have? —
Kris Vallotton

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did. —
Carla H. Krueger

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. —
Ernest Hemingway,

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that. —
Zephyr Teachout

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book. —
Alexis Arguello