Books Quote by Dawn Foster

“to graduation, I would have to remain always. I did not take hold of my studies with avidity, in fact I rarely ever read…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a brief, but…

— Grayson Perry

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and…

— Ben Jonson

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that…

— Donna Tartt

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The novel has been the subject of several scholarly essays and has become a staple of college classes in contemporary fiction (and even the…

— David Markson

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual…

— Camille Paglia

'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you…

— Edward P. Jones

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

— George Harrison

Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into…

— Nathan Englander