Books Quote by Gore Vidal

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of…

— Michel Faber

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

— Anonymous

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write…

— Moliere

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

— V. S. Naipaul

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read…

— Thomas de Quincey

There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

— Anonymous

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world…

— Rachel Kushner