Book Quote by Dave Eggers

I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek…

— Orson Scott Card

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and…

— Philip Pullman

I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I think that,…

— Junot Diaz

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of…

— Nick Hornby

I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question.…

— Chris Abani

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

— E. O. Wilson

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind…

— Eddie Trunk

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space…

— Terry Pratchett

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.

— Christopher Isherwood