Book Quote by Cornel West

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

— Carolyn Hart

“I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real…

— Philippa Gregory

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It’s a must…

— Marci Shimoff

“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the world in…

— Julian Barnes

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading…

— Margot Livesey

“One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by…

— Shirley Jackson

“For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of the playground,…

— Pamela Paul

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

— Jane Austen

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan