An exceptional book to read on! The author has a writing…

One can feel the immense joy of Amy Hill Hearth's engagement in her first novel. It radiates through every scene and through every page.…

— Philip K. Jason

“What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about…

— Lorna Landvik

Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone…

— Elizabeth Crook

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

— Frances Ridley Havergal

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

— Thomas Carlyle

“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about…

— Jo Walton

You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like, "Hey, how's…

— Jim Gaffigan

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.”

— Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

This book is to be read in bed.

— Dr. Seuss

I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. It's…

— Barbara Park

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt…

— Greta Gerwig

“I always buy another book when I still have ten to read.”

— Bipolarkath

“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing to do…

— Mark Manson