Book Quote by Peter Orner

The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that…

— Tessa Jowell

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the…

— Paul Theroux

Attending a book group is always a salutary experience for a writer. There's no guarantee that the people there will have enjoyed your book,…

— Naomi Alderman

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial…

— B. F. Skinner

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is…

— Aldous Huxley

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking…

— Jodi Picoult

People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies.…

— Gore Vidal

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.

— Robert Hass

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

— Cao Yu

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

— T. S. Eliot

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

— Alastair Reynolds