Books Quote by Edmond Manning

“A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.”

— Gérard de Nerval

“He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that we keep…

— Anonymous

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books are on…

— James V. Schall

“He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him,”

— Edna O'Brien

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is…

— Annie Dillard

“Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men... it had…

— George Eliot

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts.…

— Jarod Kintz

“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all…

— Stefan Zweig

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read…

— Virginia Woolf

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“for twenty-five years he has been reading and writing things that clever men have long known and stupid ones are not interested in;”

— Anton Chekhov