Autobiography Quote by Bernard Malamud

And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic…

— Michel de Montaigne

“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut…

— Jane Austen

“While the consequences are often quite hellish, I am absolutely and perhaps permanently against ignoring books recommended from the heart by very nice people…

— J.D. Salinger

“And as is often the case, the people who would benefit the most from reading a book like this are the ones least likely…

— Susan C. Young

“Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many…

— Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is…

— Atwood H. Townsend

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

— Bertrand Russell

“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things to do?…

— Erin Blakemore

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for…

— Horace Walpole

“The vanity of the contents” of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests “…since it is…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of…

— Anonymous

I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that is savagely…

— Andrea Dworkin