Book Quotes

Each reader has to find her or his own message within a book.

Laurie Halse Anderson
- Book
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Edgar Allan Poe

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

Jennifer Egan
- Work
- Book
Exclusive will not be published in book format.

Jeffrey Archer
- Book
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

Enrique Pena Nieto
- May
- Remember
- Violence
Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?

Virginia Woolf
- Men
- Universe
- Animal
I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
- People
- Important
- Writing
For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.

Stewart Udall
- Age
- Revolution
- Values