Book Quote by Edward Carpenter

Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in…

— E. B. White

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

— Edward Carpenter

“If you went purely by numbers, then books would win hands down. I’ve loved maybe a handful of people in my entire life, compared…

— Katarina Bivald

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! THOREAU”

— A.C. Grayling

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

— Richard P. Feynman

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,…

— Marcel Proust

“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such…

— Richard Flanagan

“I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on…

— Stephen Hawking

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Surely it is better, thought Domenica, that forty-five should buy the book and actually read it, than should many thousands, indeed millions, buy it…

— Alexander McCall Smith