Time Quote by Elliot Perlman

“You cannot be a great writer in a shop where words are sold in tens and twenties.”

— Rick Aster

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has…

— C.S. Lewis

“I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break—remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck’s The…

— Azar Nafisi

“He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies.”

— Ayn Rand

“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent…

— Mary MacLane

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When I was a poor kid in Maine, my collection of used paperbacks was like a pile of cheap vacations.”

— Stephen King

“Of those of us who comprise the real clan of the book, who read not to judge the reading of others but to take…

— Anna Quindlen

“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why is it…

— Jen Campbell