I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
Paul Auster
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an... →
We had literary references, so we knew what we were talking about. We could quote things, talk about books we'd read; you can say something, you... →
Kevin Ayers
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
Ibrahim Babangida
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse... →
Natalie Babbitt
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
Kevin Bacon
And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of... →
Julianna Baggott
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
Blake Bailey