Books Quote by Jean Webster

“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short stories under…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you…

— Donald McCaig

“Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

— Robert Eggers

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet,…

— Jane Austen

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as…

— Jane Austen

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.

— Edward Abbey

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be…

— Jane Austen

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly

“My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy of the…

— W.B. Yeats