Book Quote by Giovannino Guareschi

There is nothing quite like having your book read and truly understood. It's all the better when it's someone who knows how to go…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him

— Johann Georg Hamann

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books…

— Samuel Johnson

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

— James Bryce

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

— Lin Yutang

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until…

— Ezra Pound

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of…

— Ezra Pound

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

— Anne Frank