Book Quote by Anonymous

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

— Thomas Carlyle

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Anonymous

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”

— Marcel Proust

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust

In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.

— Marcel Proust

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

“For all those who keep on asking me when will i get my first royalty cheque: The highest reward for a person's work is…

— Lovely Goyal

Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story,…

— H. W. Brands

“THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently…

— Ben Jonson

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle”

— Carol Tavris

I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed…

— Fred Kaplan