Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Reading literature makes us better people.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part…

— René Descartes

“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.”

— Jennie Chancey

“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

— Gene Wolfe

Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“Good literature is a mirror through which we see ourselves more clearly.”

— Mark Frost

“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man”

— Mark Twain

“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words and stories,…

— Dave DiGrazie

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

“Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money - it's always been…

— Walter Moers