Books Quote by Nick Hornby

“Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite for the…

— Nick Hornby

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Being influential is not the mark of a great book.

— Mortimer Adler

“The most influential books are the ones we read when we are most malleable”

— S.E. SEVER

Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.'…

— Cheryl Mendelson

“I don't usually read popular books. Because I know how powerful promotion can be. Most of the time, the great books are hidden from…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and…

— Louise Brown

Many bad books have had great influence.

— Anne Applebaum

The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you…

— Maeve Binchy

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

— Anonymous

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not…

— Scott Adams

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I…

— Irvine Welsh