Book Quote by John Updike

“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's no such…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

“Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people's books, one's…

— Aidan Chambers

When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong…

— Nancy Pearl

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking…

— Rick Yancey

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

— Chetan Bhagat

“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of…

— Henry James

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

— Aneta Cruz

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

— Sarah Dessen

“It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking…

— A.S. Byatt

I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about…

— Isabel Allende

I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can…

— Markus Zusak