And that's finally all anyone wants out of a book- to be…

“My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the way text…

— Pamela Paul

No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship

— Sara Paretsky

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not…

— Paul Auster

“You." I gasped. "Me," he agreed, amused.”

— Julie Berry

“Well at least your awake," he sighs "You had me worried." "Get your hands away from me." He waves sheathed fingers in front of…

— Tahereh Mafi

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused…

— Joseph Priestley

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I…

— Margaret Atwood

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as…

— W. H. Auden

Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might…

— David Ignatius

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

— Wil Wheaton

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin…

— Isaac Newton

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with…

— Henry Watson Fowler

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

— Bela Lugosi

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

— Neil Gaiman