Book Quote by John Banville

“I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy seeing rows of hardcovers on my shelves. Many…

— Michael Dirda

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

— Thomas McGuane

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

“Despite the rising popularity of the downloadable e-text, I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy…

— Michael Dirda

People don't care about books. They care about ideas.

— Tim O'Reilly

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers…

— Salman Rushdie

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

— Hugo Chavez

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

— Adriana Trigiani

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

— Jo Walton

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling…

— Richard Elman