Book Quote by Clive Thompson

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

— Ian Mcewan

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

— Veronica Roth

As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of reading I…

— Elif Batuman

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured…

— Garth Greenwell

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

— Ashley Zukerman

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't…

— Mary Roach

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he…

— Ashwin Sanghi

With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my…

— Russell Freedman