Book Quote by Bill Bryson

“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of…

— Hector Carsewell Macpherson

We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have…

— Henry David Thoreau

“And one gathers from this enormous modern literature of confes- 11 sion and self- analysis that to write a work of genius is almost…

— Lee A. Jacobus

“Here Carlyle had come, here George Eliot had progressed through the bookshelves. Roland could see her black silk skirts, her velvet trains, sweeping compressed…

— A.S. Byatt

“The words of his various writing instructors and professional mentors over the years came back to him at times like these, and he found…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in highest sense,…

— Walt Whitman

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,…

— Neal Shusterman

“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may be used…

— Timothy Pina

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a world-class, open-stack…

— Robert Masello

“She wanted to own a book so badly and she had thought the copying would do it. But the pencilled sheets did not seem…

— Betty Smith

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed…

— Annie Dillard