Books Quote by Bill Bryson

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

— Alexander Chee

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about…

— Nicholas G. Carr

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.

— Peaches Geldof

“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's no such…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

— Sam Harris

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at…

— Anna Quindlen

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

— Jay McInerney

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie