Book Quote by Philip K. Dick

The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact,…

— Laila Lalami

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

— Arthur Smith

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read…

— Oscar Wilde

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

Books are the best type of the influence of the past.

— William Wordsworth

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

Good travel books are novels at heart.

— Jonathan Raban

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

— Jonathan Lethem

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for…

— Stephen Colbert

“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

— Elizabeth Strout

Unlike many travel books I didn't set out to travel with the idea of writing a book in mind.

— Chesa Boudin