Books Quote by E. M. Forster

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“To me reading is an almost sacred activity and the great novel is its high mass. The novel is so deeply powerful as an…

— Gregory Day

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired…

— Donald Hall

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

— Anonymous

To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination…

— John Cowper Powys

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great…

— Yann Martel

“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort of picture.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky