Every book, ever volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. - Daniel HandlerI believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. - Stephen King

I think new authors are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. - Asha Dornfest

Books have a publishing standard, and every indie author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded. - Eeva Lancaster

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. - Oscar Wilde

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham

I had to come to terms with the fact that writing about something was not the moral equivalent of doing it. I would not commit adultery, but I wanted to write a whole book about an affair. I know it sounds simpleminded, but I actually had to have a conversation with myself about this in the beginning, convincing myself that it was alright to depict this affair. - Jonellen Heckler

Writing a book is like telling a joke and having to wait two years to know whether or not it was funny - Alain de Botton

Describing your writing as trash while you're still drafting is like looking at a bag of flour and an egg and saying "My cake tastes like crap." - Paul Grealish

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;Thou art thyself, though not a Montague…. O, be some other name!What's in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare