Book Quote by Alain de Botton

Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when I'm alone. But when one is elevated into the stature…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

— Haruki Murakami

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

— Albert Einstein

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not…

— Gioconda Belli

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone…

— Sharon Cameron

We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life…

— Maureen Corrigan

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective…

— Epictetus

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

— Christopher Morley