Art Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I never want the art of reviewing to ever feel like a chore.”

— Queen Of Spades

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise…

— Alexander Theroux

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions…

— George Orwell

“We are lucky to die without having read some books, and without having heard some songs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't believe in being ashamed about not having read things.

— Elif Batuman

“What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms,…

— Rudolf Flesch

What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And…

— Richard LaGravenese

I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a…

— Emilie Autumn

There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of dilatoriness but…

— James V. Schall

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to…

— Nathalie Sarraute

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

— E. Nesbit

Reading a book and having to re-read the same paragraph over and over again because your thoughts are too distracting.

— AmiT

After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have…

— Henry Rollins

“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.”

— Geoffrey Wood