About Quote by Kevin Ayers

“This is why, when we have been particularly impressed by a book, we feel the need to talk about it; we do not want…

— Wolfgang Iser

In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

— Noah Hawley

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

— Cassandra Clare

Literature speaks with everyone individually - it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a…

— Herta Muller

“Because we can't, we don't know how to talk about a movie or a book anymore; the moment has come when movies and novels…

— Alejandro Zambra

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

— Sarah Dessen

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

— Elbert Hubbard

“It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough…

— Robert Alter

“I have been asked to explain what I meant by saying that "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." I have no notion…

— G.K. Chesterton

“At the start, we tried to be calm and objective, but that soon fell away, and the purpose of the speakers was to goad…

— Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“There's no reason, to talk about the books I read. But still I do.”

— Morrissey