Book Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

— Jose Bergamin

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

— Carrie Coon

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

— Nancy Hale

If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

— Lloyd Alexander

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

— Holly Black

“Everything you need to know can be found in a book.”

— Roland Smith

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.

— George Washington

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

“Readers often feel they know an author because they’ve read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual…

— Cheryl St.John