Book Quote by Paulo Coelho

“Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand; The Trojan…

— Larry Niven

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be…

— John Connolly

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The…

— Kris Holden-Ried

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.

— Pliny the Younger

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

— George Eliot

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

— Regis Debray

“As he learned more from his father in school he was led to reading every book he could find as long as it was…

— Sam Wellman

It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books.

— Agatha Christie

But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.

— Tove Jansson

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

— Tom Perrotta

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't…

— Alison Bechdel

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts…

— Terry Pratchett