Book Critic Quotes

“I'm never going to complain about receiving free early copies of books, because clearly there's nothing to complain about, but it does introduce a rogue element into one's otherwise carefully plotted reading schedule. ...

Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarly deflected from your chosen path. ”
― Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree

“Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers?”
― Larry Correia

“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.”
― Dean Koontz, Relentless

“I pick my books like I pick my meals. However, I'm an extremely picky eater so that changes things.”
― Zoe Surratt

“UNUM is a remarkably clever book that reminds one of 'The Alchemist', as well as The Celestine Prophecy and makes you pause and ask: What is truly important in life? Why do I exist? Where am I headed? Perhaps now is the time for all of us to ask ourselves that.”
― Johan Malm, Book Critic, Swedish National Television

“You can't read an e-book in the tub. You can't fling one across the room, aiming as Mark Twain liked to do, at a cat. And e-books will not furnish a room.”
― Dwight Garner