Book Quote by Mark Kurlansky

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really like that…

— Gillian Flynn

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

When I read any book, if it's really good I get lost in the writing whether it's fiction or non-fiction. I'm in the story…

— Jeff Feuerzeig

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great…

— Virginia Woolf

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

— Tom Sizemore

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

— Jonathan Lethem

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

“Sometimes, when I read, it's not just fiction while I'm between the pages. It’s real. My heart races when they kiss, and I get…

— Emma Hart