After Quote by Ridley Scott

“I turned the page in Slaughterhouse Five, a forbidden book at Belmont because we were too young to read about soldiers swearing and bombs…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“I spent the rest of my day in someone else’s story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned…

— Amy Plum

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

— Chris Crutcher

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other…

— Robert Creeley

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

— Sherwood Smith

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

— Norman Mailer

When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young…

— Martin Amis

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake…

— Franz Kafka

“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

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

— Azar Nafisi

“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,…

— Michael Anthony