Book Quote by Virginia Woolf

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no…

— Robert Cormier

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

— Franz Kafka

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

— Jeff Bezos

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book…

— Dave Kellett

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I…

— Mark McNairy

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

— David Bezmozgis

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I…

— Irvine Welsh

“I have never read a book that didn’t in some way impact my life”

— jenny

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has…

— Frank Bruni

“Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I;m convinced that the shattered world has…

— Frank Bruni