Books Quote by Rebecca Mead

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the story is…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are concerned with…

— Ian Gregor

“America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As…

— Richard Flanagan

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

— Jacob Weisberg

“I loved the physicality of books just as much as the stories inside, the feel of pages between my fingers, the intricacies of classic…

— Elizabeth Joy Arnold

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books.

— Jonathan Lethem

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

— Margaret Atwood