Books Quote by Erica Jong

I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were…

— Eudora Welty

I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm…

— Joshua Ferris

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived,…

— Lauren Willig

“Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books…

— Eudora Welty

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

— Katie Holmes

From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused…

— Rita Dove

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more…

— Suzanne Brockmann

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

— John Green

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me…

— Tom Brokaw

I hadn't thought about that before, this passionate following, with fan fiction and artwork. At first it felt like an invasion of privacy, but…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my…

— Berkeley Breathed