Book Quote by Colleen Coble

As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly, these novels…

— Mary Pope Osborne

about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

— Margaret Atwood

“One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to…

— Ben Yagoda

A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

— Christopher Koch

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in…

— David Liss

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder