Analysis Quote by Mark Dvoretsky

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget…

— Jose Raul Capablanca

While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from the point…

— Terry Pratchett

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it…

— James Russell Lowell

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

— Chris Crutcher

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

— Jerry Seinfeld

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

— John Ruskin

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

— Patrick Ness

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several…

— William Styron

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

— Paulo Coelho

It's a fantastic privilege to spend three or four hundred pages with a reader. You have time to go into certain questions that are…

— Anne Michaels

A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche