Books Quote by Jarod Kintz

“Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says. No, Olivia, just one." How about four?" Two." Three." Oh, all right, three. But that's it!”

— Ian Falconer

“Judging books by their covers is seriously underrated, and any book nerd who claims never to have done it is probably lying.”

— Amy Elizabeth Smith

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

— Ahmet Zappa

“we should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.)”

— Ray Bradbury

Covers, so many covers, so many different, delectable pictures, and although, metaphorically speaking, it is the thing I hate most, when it comes to…

— Jane Green

People do judge books by their covers, and the magazine editors deciding whether to include your book on their pages are working in a…

— Camille Perri

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

— Jean M. Auel

I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do…

— Vikram Seth

I read more than I do anything else, probably. I read about three books a week.

— Jodie Foster

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.

— Tony Wilson

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

— Alison Bechdel

I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and…

— Gillian Jacobs