Boat Quote by Patricia Schroeder

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more…

— Tracy Chevalier

Many Americans have never owned a book. And others have never owned a non-fiction book. Providing them with a 300-page paperback would get them…

— James W. Loewen

More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a different moment.…

— Isabel Allende

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing…

— Nelson Mandela

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.

— Anonymous

The fact that we don't read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about…

— Bennett Cerf

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

— Gore Vidal

Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which…

— David Simon

“Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means…

— Tony Reinke

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry…

— Stephen King

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

— George W. Bush