Book Quote by Clifton Fadiman

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

— Tony Burgess

“There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic and improving. But in my…

— Vernon Sproxton

“Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books lies in their ability…

— Pierre Bayard

The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn…

— Katherine Paterson

I think books make you think in a different way than movies and documentaries.

— MO

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

— Alan Bennett

This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life…

— Alberto Manguel

Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories. People who…

— Daniel Goldin

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not…

— Paul Auster

Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and…

— John Darnielle

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

— Lee Child

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

— Rachel Joyce