Analysis Quote by Scott McClanahan

I like to read psychologist's books. 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari,' that's one of my favorites. Those kinds of books.

— Ricky Rubio

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history…

— William Winwood Reade

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

A book brings its own history to the reader.

— Alberto Manguel

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody…

— Erik Larson

I'm not sure you can count as history, was Keith Richards's "Life," which he so modestly titled it. I did find it a fascinating…

— Dave Barry

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

— Colson Whitehead

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I gave Wang a copy of Joseph Campbell’s great book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, because he is a classic hero and I…

— Ray Dalio

“I think a great book—leaving aside other qualities such as narrative power, characterization, style, and so on—is a book that describes the world in…

— Julian Barnes