All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad. Meg Cabot
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. Mike Tyson
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book. Anne McCaffrey
Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them. James Dashner
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it. Paul Auster
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. Virginia Woolf
Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online. Daniel Clowes
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. Peter Ackroyd
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time. Bret Easton Ellis
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. Annie Dillard
Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times. Justin Cronin
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again. Joshua Ferris
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. Kate DiCamillo
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship. Marilyn Monroe