Book Quote by Charles Darwin

“And now, indeed, everything began to look new, unexpected, full of surprises. I had a book in my hands to while away the time,…

— Amitav Ghosh

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is…

— Roland Barthes

Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.

— Abraham Pais

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John

“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human…

— James K. Morrow

I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.

— Larry Winget