Book Quote by Arnold Bennett Download Open image “As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.” — Arnold Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books People
I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Books do not simply happen to people. People also happen to books. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is… — Frederick Locker-Lampson Copy Share Image
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and it answers… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“When one has thoroughly got imbued into one's head the leading truth that nothing happens without a cause, one grows not only large-minded, but… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
