Books Quotes · Page 2,367

“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.”

— Gary Shteyngart

I am no fan of books.

— Stephen Colbert

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world…

— David Amram

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

“So what's this about a book club? You girls sit around, reading dirty books, fanning each other's vaginas? Because if so, count…

— Jay McLean

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book.

— Terri Windling

We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of…

— Samuel Roth

“Simple text might entertain you but will never let you grow.”

— Garima Dixit

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

— Ishmael Reed

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the…

— Peter Singer

“Children ask me sometimes what book I'd take to a desert island, but I think I couldn't go to a desert island…

— Mary Stolz

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser,…

— David McCord

I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it…

— David Conyers

Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

I haven't studied history - I couldn't give a discourse in medieval literature - but I am a personal historian, and I…

— Lucy Dacus

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

— David Sedaris

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in…

— Marlon James

Many people talk about me entering the history books as the first female in 22 years and what a big moment it…

— Susie Wolff

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

— Victor Hugo

Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the…

— Walter Cronkite

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by…

— Flannery O'Connor

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

— Joseph O'Neill

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the…

— Mike McCue

“All you need is one golden apple - a single apple that somebody else wants - and you have control. (Fateful Night,…

— KR Hughes TL Burns