Book Quote by Danielle Dutton

There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot. It's amazing.

— Victoria Chang

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the…

— Donna Tartt

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

— Mohsin Hamid

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

— Jim Harrison

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only…

— Anonymous

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

— Cornelia Funke

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

— Terry Pratchett

I like books that are fat and full.

— Mary Oliver

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They…

— Chris Ware

Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount…

— Jesse James Garrett