Book Quote by Anne Fadiman

“Eddie Carroll had just come in from outside, and read Noonan's letter standing in the mudroom. He flipped to the beginning of the story.…

— Joe Hill

“My father was too distracted to see anything in this. Mimicking my mother, he taped it to the fridge in the same place Buckley's…

— Alice Sebold

“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have undertaken—and he…

— William Finnegan

“I tried to lift the book in a kind of salute, but it was way too heavy for that. In fact,when I got back…

— Rachel Hawkins

“John lowered the book he'd been reading. "Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?" "I know you were listening, " I said in disgust,…

— Meg Cabot

“the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with…

— Bruno Schulz

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'

— Johnny Depp

“If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral. John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. "Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist…

— John McGahern

“John MacKechnie’s Gaelic Without Groans”

— Gladys Mitchell

“When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures…

— Hilary Mantel

I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone whispers something…

— Sylvia Beach