Book Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Whoever looks for the writer’s thinking in the words and thoughts of his characters is looking in the wrong direction. Seeking out a…

— Philip Roth

“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies not in…

— Philip Roth

“Books are so full of thoughts that some of them have learned to think.”

— Henry Hitchens (Browse

The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.

— Joan Acocella

“The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

— J.K. Rowling

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear…

— Edward P. Morgan

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns…

— William Faulkner

“It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Abraham Lincoln

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

“And form this kind of thought has emerged a new conclusion: which is that it is not only childish of a writer to want…

— Doris Lessing