Being Quote by Jonathan Kozol

When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.

— Jeffrey Archer

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.

— Jonathan Glazer

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

— Charles Dickens

I believe if you've written a book, you have to stand up and say, 'Guys, buy the book.'

— Ravi Subramanian

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

— Anthony Horowitz

I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

— Gabrielle Zevin

Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the authors soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water…

— Ash Sweeney

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

— Jay Asher

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

— Robert Greene

Books are the curse of the human race.

— Benjamin Disraeli

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

— Penelope Lively