Books Quote by Anonymous

“You don’t know that my books do good?’ ‘No, I don’t know. I know that men are already getting past “novels” without novelty, and…

— M.P. Shiel

Reader, I am myself the subject of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and so vain a…

— Bernard Malamud

“There are never enough books to be satisfied with”

— I believe Me

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much

— Oscar Wilde

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But…

— Jane Austen

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the…

— Anne Bronte

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

— James Salter

“I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer…

— Charles Dickens

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten…

— Joan Didion

“Brrr, who had never admired books particularly...didn't remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe…

— Gregory Maguire

The person, be it lady or gentlemen who has not pleasure in a good book must be intoleranlty stupid.

— Jane Austen