Believe Quote by David Nicholls

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate…

— Ruskin Bond

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes…

— Neil Gaiman

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Jonathan Lethem

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book…

— Rebecca Stead

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read…

— Jonathan Lethem

Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we…

— Joseph Brodsky

“I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to…

— Marisa de los Santos