Book Quote by Alberto Manguel

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the…

— Michael Chabon

Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not…

— Hisham Matar

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people…

— Anonymous

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

— Jamie Oliver

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who…

— Monica Wood

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have…

— Stephen Greenblatt

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

— Victor Levin

Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them…

— Ramona Koval