Book Quote by Marshall McLuhan

There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to…

— Marshall McLuhan

When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.

— Eoin Macken

It is an admonition to myself when I am reading other people's books. Writing a book is very difficult to do, even a bad…

— Thomas L. Dumm

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

— Don Paterson

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

— Martellus Bennett

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to…

— Nick Hornby

I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the…

— Chris Abani

“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you haven't read…

— john durham peters