About Quote by Emma McLaughlin

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we…

— Will Schwalbe

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them.…

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read 'The Miraculous…

— Kate DiCamillo

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space…

— Terry Pratchett

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

— Jennifer Weiner

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

— Cassandra Clare

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

— Anonymous

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in…

— Will Self