Avid Quote by Jodi Picoult

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

— A. S. Byatt

Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which…

— Jeanette Winterson

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to…

— Susie Bright

People tend to find books when they are ready for them.

— Neil Gaiman

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their…

— Sylvia Day

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular…

— Echo Bodine

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies.…

— Gore Vidal

Why by a book when you can join a library.

— Ricky Gervais

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

— Ricky Gervais

“People are like books, and the world is like a library. Some believe that it is important to be known with the most possible…

— Varg Vikernes