I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin? — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.” — The Letters Of Gratitude Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“It's the same with books, you see mounds of them in bookshops and you want to read them all, or at least… — Andrés Neuman Copy Share Image
From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, and taking the time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is more cognitively enriching, without… — Ken Pugh Copy Share Image
When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
