Book Quote by John Steinbeck

“Thus it has come about that our theoretical and critical literature, instead of giving plain, straightforward arguments in which the author at least always…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“This book is for the people who don't want to pick a single focus and abandon all their other interests. It's for the curious,…

— Emilie Wapnick

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all,…

— Joyce Maynard

“When one has read a book, I think there is nothing so nice as discussing it with some one else - even though it…

— C.S. Lewis

“One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that…

— Kris Saknussemm

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

— Mark Lawrence

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under…

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.”

— W.H. Auden

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

“The book depicts thoughts, unveils imaginings, answers unspoken questions, clarifies doubts, resolves arguments, and finally reveals the very atoms of the most curiosity-driven desire.”

— Anonymous

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson