Being Quote by Angie Thomas

I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that…

— Zadie Smith

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves.

— Peter Jackson

“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an…

— Tiffini Johnson

Controversy sells books.

— Robert Gottlieb

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is relatively recent…

— Arundhati Roy

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and…

— Dave Eggers

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if…

— George Eliot

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are…

— Joe Meno

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that,…

— Junot Diaz