Books Quote by Wayne Booth

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

— Elena Ferrante

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and…

— Diane Schoemperlen

“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an…

— Tiffini Johnson

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us…

— Harry Mazer

“Once you’ve written a book, it belongs to everyone, and they are all allowed to have opinions, and the spectrum of opinions is the…

— Neil Gaiman

“A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in…

— Umberto Eco

“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.”

— Matt

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction…

— Virginia Woolf

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book…

— Jim Rohn

“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism…

— Michael Dirda

“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics', Marcus Aurelius's…

— Robert Nozick