Book Quote by J. Oswald Sanders

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

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

— Sneha Mehta

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

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

— Voltaire

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

— Menander

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher