Books Quote by Henry Adams

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…

— Brooks Adams

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another…

— George Mikes

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is…

— Elie Wiesel

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The chances of achieving literary performance are, to the decimal point, the odds against becoming fully human. That means one hundred and fifty million…

— Allan Gurganus

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a…

— Arthur Koestler

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of…

— Doris Lessing

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

— John Cage

“One of the results of this self-examination — for that is what the writing of this book amounts to — is the confirmed belief…

— Henry Miller

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much…

— Norman Cousins

“It seems a very specific bid: I´ll take Famous Authors for five hundred.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“doing hundred works at a time in a single way is a result of planning and doing the same hundred works in hundred different…

— DHAN SINGH BORA