Books Quote by David Foster Wallace

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

— Christopher Morley

Reading is essential to human life. When the last reader dies, humanity will be at an end.

— Anthony McCarten

“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity, but that's…

— Anonymous

Readers know what the copy is going to say.

— John Caples

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.

— Umberto Eco

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep…

— Samuel Johnson

I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though…

— Laurie Foos

“Really good work probably comes out of a willingness to disclose yourself, open yourself up in spiritual and emotional ways that risk making you…

— David Foster Wallace

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

— Raymond Chandler

“It is most likely that I will die next to a pile of books I was meaning to read.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages.”

— R.K. Ryals