America Quote by Jonathan Coe

I regret all of my books.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

— Italo Calvino

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

— Alexis Arguello

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

— Francoise Sagan

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

— Mason Cooley

My biggest regret is that I don't really have time to read.

— Stan Lee

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

— Oprah Winfrey

I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself…

— Gary Shteyngart

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

— Sarah Waters

Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.

— Antonio Tabucchi

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their…

— George Bernard Shaw

Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling…

— Richard Elman