Books Quote by Robert Benchley

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the…

— Dylan Thomas

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

— Ronald Fisher

Could I have run the read-option? I think I possibly could have done it, but I would not have wanted to do it.

— Randall Cunningham

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside…

— Ann Patchett

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

— Margaret Atwood

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his…

— Mary Abigail Dodge

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

— Alan Bennett

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Mark Twain

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of…

— Agnes Repplier

“When we read, we decide when, where, how long, and about what. One of the few places on earth that it is still possible…

— Andrew Clements

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean…

— Iain Pears

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

— Cesar Chavez