Elizabeth McCracken Quotes

I'm the world's worst at reading reviews and then pretending I've read the book.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

I don't very often read novels.

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

What I enjoy about reviewing and writing for newspapers and periodicals is simply the chance to talk about all kinds of books and lots of them.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

I never even had the time to read novels.

I've started doing book reviews for Barnes & Noble! They saw that I did a lot of book reviews on the site, and they figured that it might not be a bad thing if they got me to do some for them as well. I gave them five categories I'd be interested in reviewing, from art to fiction to music.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-changing, but it's a low-stress gig. Publishers send me their books. More than I could possibly read. I pick a few and write about them, put a very few others on the shelf, to be perused at my leisure, someday.

I never read articles about my books.