Books Quote by Brian Lumley

It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of the world.…

— Tim Winton

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles,…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Responding to the claim that not just reading but "high culture" in general is morally improving, Terry Eagleton points out that, during World War…

— Alan Jacobs

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were…

— Tibor Fischer

“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story, or material…

— Andrew Piper

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life…

— Victor Pelevin

People in Germany are very, very responsive to the readings.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.

— Tim Maleeny

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to…

— Alan Furst

Some people are widely read. I'm thinly read.

— Eddie Izzard

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so…

— Stephen Sondheim

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count…

— Bennett Cerf