Book Quote by George Steiner

“For many years I have regarded the Pentateuch simply as a record of a barbarous people, in which are found a great number of…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Good books are for consideration after, too.

— Stephen King

“Books, purchasable at low cost, permit us to interrogate the past with high accuracy; to tap the wisdom of our species; to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a…

— Arnold Toynbee

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that…

— Mary Kingsley

It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a…

— Diana Peterfreund

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

— Edward Abbey

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say

— Jaron Lanier

I always want to write something better than the last book.

— Tracy Kidder

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.”

— Jan Surasky