Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Henry David Thoreau
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar... →
Colm Toibin
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
Steve Toltz
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
Claire Tomalin
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards... →
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
Lily Tomlin