Books Quote by Maureen Howard

Writers are naturally obsessed with books, the tangible artifacts of their labor. Even beyond the text, I love the physicality of books, the possibilities…

— Ken Liu

I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me,…

— Josh Radnor

The better the book the more room for the reader.

— Holbrook Jackson

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do…

— Nathalie Sarraute

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself…

— Gregory Allen Howard

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.

— Susan Wallace

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the…

— Tara Bray Smith

“Though he would sometimes not touch a book for a week, he generally spent part of each day in reading…if he sat in the…

— Walt Whitman

“Those that spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of…

— M.R. James

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

— Samuel Johnson

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill