Book Quote by Lynne Truss

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense…

— Arnold Bennett

I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by…

— Anonymous

My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They…

— Gabriel Zaid

So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people...…

— Daniel Handler

Other people just look so comfortable with a book in their hands - I never feel like that.

— Bob Mortimer

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

— Rita Dove

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

— Penelope Lively

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

— Paul Theroux

I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it…

— Salman Rushdie

“I am a book-collector, a proud avocationist in what Eric Quayle (wrongly) asserts to be the "least vicious" of hobbies (we are quite savage).…

— Paul Theroux

“For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our passion is…

— Lewis Buzbee