Book Quote by John Scott

It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity…

— Ruskin Bond

The only books I give up on are texts where the writer's attention is concentrated so heavily on narrative questions that his or her…

— Anthony Doerr

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as…

— Ali Smith

We're living in a homogenized culture where everything is the same, and books are not a homogenized culture. They are extremely varied, and they're…

— Jeanette Winterson

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

— James Redfield

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write…

— Nick Cave

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read…

— Charlton Laird

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be…

— Chath Piersath

“Everyone always talks about the magic of books being able to take you to other places, to let you see exotic worlds, to make…

— Brandon Sanderson

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

— Jesse Ball