Books Quote by Richard Hughes

No murder or sin or act of barbarism or cruelty has ever been committed by a person fully absorbed in the reading of a…

— Anthony McCarten

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are…

— Alice Walker

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

— Tony Hillerman

“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do?…

— Erin Blakemore

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

— Dorothy Parker

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and…

— Philip Pullman

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

— David Mitchell

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the…

— Michael Chabon

“When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To know I could still…

— Philip Larkin

I can't say that you should extract this or that value from my books explicitly. They are up for interpretation. In terms of the…

— Colson Whitehead

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and…

— Lawrence Osborne

Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to…

— Barbara Kingsolver