#book

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#books #enjoy #fiction #gothic #i

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#because #books #close #hard #i

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? ↗

— Patty Duke

#ago #am #books #close #did

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#children #drive #gives #narrative #sense

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#being #book #creation #give #human

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#blues #book #country #get #i

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#books #certain #editor #house #i

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#book #changed #could #diaper #every

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it. ↗

— Jo Walton

#attitude

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#book #come #europe #hardcover #i