Books Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

— Karan Mahajan

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

— Anonymous

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written,…

— Norton Juster

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

That is why the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics; all that has survived, and all that has no reason to survive…

— Anthony Lane

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

— Virginia Woolf

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think…

— Kevin Keck

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

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