Assuming Quote by Doris Lessing

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction…

— Karen Traviss

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

— Umberto Eco

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

— Tom Bissell

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

— Anonymous

People have proven over and over that they will read if they are given something they like. The problem with reading is not reading,…

— Tucker Max

If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular…

— Echo Bodine