Book Quote by Miranda July

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think…

— George Pelecanos

I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that…

— Ben Fountain

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply…

— Catherine Mayer

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to…

— R. A. Salvatore

It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't…

— Lucy Corin

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

— Kevin O'Leary

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have…

— Alberto Manguel

I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. Growing up, I never…

— Noah Baumbach

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't…

— John Updike