The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it. Norman Cousins
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable. Julian Barnes
The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer. Jerry Kramer
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55. Robert Cormier
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Oscar Wilde
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House. Michael Eric Dyson
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. Kate Morton
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. Jonathan Carroll
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about. John McEnroe
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. Virginia Woolf
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales. Paul Auster
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. Jonathan Carroll
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Dan Brown
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!Charles Darwin
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. Harlan Coben
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think. Wendelin Van Draanen
When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance. David Brin