Book Quote by Michael Chabon

I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

— Paloma Faith

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

— Kevin Brockmeier

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly…

— Jackie French

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

— Ferran Adria

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

— Salman Rushdie

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a…

— Shane McCrae

I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have…

— Ludwig Bemelmans

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books I don't like to reread them.

— Michael Connelly

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

— George Hamilton

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

— Charlie Kaufman

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

— Michel de Montaigne