Books Quote by Rick Moody

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

— Garry Wills

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

— Marianne Moore

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

— Lev Grossman

The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have…

— Daniel Craig

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

— Daniel Radcliffe

The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot to me.…

— Elif Batuman

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where…

— Daniel Alarcon

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

— DanTDM

I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a…

— Paule Marshall

I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner,…

— Anonymous

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

— David Guterson

I'm not for it [Brookland and The Testament of Yves Gundron ], I'm not against it, I'm just interested in it and how it…

— Emily Barton