Books Quote by Stephen Baxter

“It was enough to make you think fondly of those early days, of that “springtime” of the revolution when your teeth would be chattering…

— Teffi

“I have no interest in looking at all of that shit written down. I would rather have a root canal. In 1705.”

— Kara Lee Corthron

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that…

— Oprah Winfrey

“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“A bit reluctantly, trying to leave my bruised ego behind, I was warming to the Appalachian idea. Bourbon and branch water. Dulcimer music. Wildflowers…

— Judith Fertig

“It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and then resistant and finally hopeless…

— Tobias Wolff

“Once, books appealed to a few people, here, there, everywhere. They could afford to be different. The world was roomy. But then the world…

— Ray Bradbury

“With all the lit­tle facts we learned, we nev­er had the time to think. None of us ev­er con­sid­ered what life would be like…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526…

— Saidiya Hartman

“Writing has taught me that the frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were…

— Dustin Lee

“My American adolescence was filled with tales of woe like this, all of them proof of what my mother said, that we did not…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen