Biography Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that…

— David Brin

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most…

— Sara Sheridan

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make…

— Karin Slaughter

“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an…

— William Everson

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

— James Redfield

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

— Diana Gabaldon

You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things…

— Ryan North

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the…

— David Maraniss

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a…

— Richard Powers