Book Quote by Ayn Rand

Like me, he has a searing belief that books are sacred. They might not be to other people, but when you have a passion,…

— Candace Bushnell

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

— John Ciardi

“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.”

— Anonymous

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the…

— Marcel Proust

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at…

— A. A. Milne

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.

— Umberto Eco

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

— Richard Dawkins

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

— Julia Alvarez

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau