One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
Danielle de Niese
I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
Joachim de Posada
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell... →
David Eagleman
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Roger Ebert
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of... →
Meister Eckhart
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Umberto Eco
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the... →
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't... →
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
Arthur Eddington