Book Quote by Mary Roach

Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past…

— Larry Winget

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

— Norman MacCaig

When you start off with your first book, people assume that you're like all the characters in the book - and it does complicate…

— Irvine Welsh

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

— Josephine Tey

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

— Don Paterson

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think…

— A. S. Byatt

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have…

— Ian Mcewan

I think that if you really love a book, there's nothing nicer than to have a first edition of it.

— Sophie Dahl

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

— Blaise Pascal

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of…

— Carl Hiaasen

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at…

— Chang-Rae Lee