Books Quote by Italo Calvino

“So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the…

— Italo Calvino

“Every so often an author comes along and changes the world. I am not that author!”

— Rachel Rueben

“In every author, let us distinguish the man from his work.”

— Voltaire

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

“The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there…

— Henry David Thoreau

“After reading a good book, something must change in you! If nothing changed, then you can be sure that you haven't read the book…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

“... the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance…

— William Goldman