Book Quote by Ezra Pound

“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”

— Ezra Pound

“...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.”

— Patricia Engel

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Among the Conscious, a man is only worth his latest reading.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“Books bombarded his shoulders, his arms, his upturned face. A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering.”

— Ray Bradbury

“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

— C.S. Lewis

“He is our man's-man of literature.”

— Andrew Barger

“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with…

— Rachel Kadish