"I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sle..."
- Laurie Halse Anderson
"Well… Actually, just read any books you find interesting will do. Even books that seem boring aren’t actually that dull. It’s just that the reader couldn’t find the interesting parts."
- Yukiya Murasaki
"I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns."
- W.B. Yeats
"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."
- Jasper Fforde
"Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite."
- Novalis