Book Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

— James Wright

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

— Judy Blume

I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.

— Karin Slaughter

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

— Mark Twain

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through…

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

— Anonymous

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

— Anthony Burgess

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give…

— John Cheever

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

— Vera Brittain