Book Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so…

— Henry David Thoreau

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

— Malcolm X

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching…

— Richard Bach

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

— Luc de Clapiers

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

“Think of this book as a new genre altogether—a when-to book.”

— Daniel H. Pink

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

— Winston Churchill

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

— Ernest Hemingway

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire