Book Quote by Dorothy Parker

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us…

— Franz Kafka

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

“Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake…

— Franz Kafka

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they…

— Alexander McCall Smith

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make…

— William Brinkley

If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which,…

— Jane Austen

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's…

— Jeanette Winterson

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…

— Thomas de Quincey