Book Quote by John Hospers

Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.

— Ben Katchor

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

— Siri Hustvedt

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

— Mitch Albom

If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll certainly like Lee Smolin's writing, and 'Time Reborn' is…

— Robert J. Sawyer

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

— Dorothy Parker

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has…

— Eugene Field

“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages…

— Kate Morton

“How are you supposed to know what to read next? This is the question that keeps us up at night, so at Day One…

— Carmen Johnson

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

— Amy Bloom

“Forth from the war emerging,a book I have made, the words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything, a book separate, not…

— Walt Whitman

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch