About Quote by John Jeremiah Sullivan

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated…

— Janet Evanovich

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.

— Gwen Cooper

“They were allowed a little touch at each of the books, but only with their fingertips tonight, literature cannot bear dirty hands; first we'll…

— Halldór Laxness

“By 1857 there were at least 112 publishers in New York City. While most were “respectable” houses, emphasizing genteel, religious, and domestic literature, others…

— Mike Wallace

I grew up in a house with very few books.

— Ken Livingstone

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

— Jerzy Kosinski

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take us out…

— Annie Barrows