Book Quote by John Hodgman

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I…

— Mark McNairy

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but…

— Sally Schneider

I’m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.

— Kristin Cashore

The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my…

— Anne Lamott

I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they…

— Eric Schlosser

personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

— E. V. Lucas

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of…

— Carl Sagan

I want to make sense of things, to understand the world, but my work is never really instructional. I have no wisdom to impart…

— Sarnath Banerjee