Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people b….

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those wh….

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language..

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek..

Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Co….

The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your in….

It must be that people who read go on more macrocosmic and microcosmic trips – biblical god trips, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Ulysses, Finnegan’s ….

I was the first person Donald Trump threatened to sue on Twitter..

Obession makes everything possible.

Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed wi….

I like making books but I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. Perhaps I just try to arrange a bunch of seemingly random drawings into something that m….

The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, al….

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay..

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip..

You need to write a book, what's going on with my serve. It's disaster. I don't bend my legs. Instead of jumping forward, I'm kicking it too much ins….

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future gene….

Do whatever you have to do to be happy..

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later..

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.].

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave cert….

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary..