Books Quote by Horace

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it…

— Samuel Johnson

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

— Don DeLillo

True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff of self-knowledge

— Félix J. Palma

“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It would be better to try to awake the reader’s critical instincts than to appeal to his laziness.”

— Albert Camus

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but…

— Edward B. Hanna

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

— Po Bronson

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping…

— David Ulin