Beckett Quote by Edward Albee

I don't read many popular histories like the ones I write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the inspiration for…

— Rick Perlstein

I read Lorrie Moore and Marilynne Robinson and Jhumpa Lahiri and Richard Ford, John Updike, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov - all of whom I…

— Michelle Zauner

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

— Naveen Patnaik

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

— Franz Wright

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She…

— Peter Capaldi

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

— Anna Quindlen

There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type.

— Gillian Flynn

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

— Charles Bukowski

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them,…

— Rene Descartes