Book Quote by Zia Haider Rahman

Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody…

— Anonymous

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 am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don't count listening to a…

— Emilie Autumn

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

— Donalyn Miller

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

— Jenny Zhang

“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's no such…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in…

— Dan Chaon

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

— Diane von Furstenberg

It's always fun to talk about a novel.

— Susan Straight

I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read…

— Mary Roach

I don't necessarily want to talk about a book that I read. Even when I love it.

— Judy Blume

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way…

— Nathaniel Philbrick