Books Quote by Haruki Murakami

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the world of…

— Haruki Murakami

I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what…

— Jesmyn Ward

“Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I…

— Claire Dederer

They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.

— Loretta Chase

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a…

— Bernard Malamud

It’s a shame, sort of a waste, that most people are influenced by what the newspaper supplements tell them is the book they are…

— Steve Aylett

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others as tooling. I'm between the two; there are days when I use…

— Edith Wharton

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to…

— John Irving

“The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short…

— James A. Newman

“I recently discovered that a friend who was re-reading Bleak House had done no other Dickens apart from Barnaby Ridge. That's just weird. I…

— Nick Hornby