Books Quote by David Abbott

“This book is intended for calm readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The thing I hated while reading this book, it turns out, was me. Bad things happen, and shoulders are shrugged. The most serious of…

— Hugh Howey

“How do you make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these? Where are the things that novelists seize…

— Wallace Stegner

“For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on the senses; one sees more intensely afterwards; the world seems…

— Virginia Woolf

“That moment you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone else is just getting on with their lives as though you didn't…

— Anonymous

“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn't…

— Jamie Craig

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy

“When life is unbearable grab a dramatic book and feel better!”

— Jesseka

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When I sit down with a novel in my hand I want to enjoy the experience. That means having fun. Too many books take…

— Clayton J. Callahan

“As the sweaty, alcohol fuming bodies press in on me from all directions I decide that my ideal of a good time is reading…

— Rita Stradling

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability…

— Carl Henegan