#book

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#container #create #itself #narrative #people

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself. ↗

— David Walliams

#books #children #demanding #i #just

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#committed #ever #good #good book #many

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#funny #got #lot #man #punishment

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#book #books #each #finger #fingerprints

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#anymore #books #doing #haven #i

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#become #bestseller #books #del #did

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#after #book #even #i #next

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#basic #book #each #hand #hold

There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty