Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but... →
John Battelle
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
Richard Bausch
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Pierre Bayle
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I felt that it might not be... →
Ishmael Beah
Lord of the Rings was something I always wanted to do. I read the book when I was about 25, and I was always hoping if it was ever made into a... →
Sean Bean
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
Ann Beattie
I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter... →
Ned Beauman
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who... →