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A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. — Pico Iyer

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. — Fanny Fern

A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive. — Ivor A. Richards

He was described as the literary leader of the age, but had never written a book that sold more than three thousand copies. — Ayn Rand

Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Gregory Neri

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of. — Umberto Eco

Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it. — Carole Radziwill

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publishing. — Mary Sage Nguyen

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. — Amy Tan

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ... — John Gimlette

The Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon. — Noam Chomsky

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad. — Rebecca McNutt

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. — A. N. Wilson

I didn't want to write a book, even a short one like this, that would leave me feeling like either a literary gasbag or a transcendental asshole. — Stephen King

If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write. — Joyce Rachelle

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. — G.K. Chesterton

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form. — Jacques Barzun

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit. — Michael Moorcock

Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. — Joseph Joubert

If you don't read my book, I'm not coming to your birthday party. — Tim Yeager

No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right? — Jonathan Harnisch

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer. — Neel Mukherjee

You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. — Nelson Algren

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. — Janet Goodfriend

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion. — Erica Jong

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book. — Macaulay Culkin

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. — W. H. Auden

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books. — Richard Flanagan

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith

A man who would write the same book twice could not even write it once. — George Orwell

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag. — C. Robert Cargill

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. — Kathryn Joyce

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton