Book Quote by David McCullough

The abundance of books is distraction

— Seneca the Younger

I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening…

— David Malouf

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

— Anne Michaels

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

— Socrates

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole…

— Billy Burke

The better the book the more room for the reader.

— Holbrook Jackson

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the…

— Thomas de Quincey

The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential…

— Michael Boatman

There is no reason why good books should be lowered or lessened being rewritten to meet the demands of people who are not ready…

— Frances Clarke Sayers