Book Quote by Jonathan Lethem

I want to put out a few books throughout my lifetime.

— Katelyn Ohashi

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

A writer could spend years reading already-published books just to gain a grasp of the historical terrain.

— Erik Larson

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

— Garth Stein

I don't want to write books that are intellectually staggering if nobody's going to read them.

— Simon Singh

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago.

— David Grann

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

— Richard Scarry

Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to…

— Ken Follett

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.

— Martin Cruz Smith

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

— Laila Lalami

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde