Books Quote by John Selden

“Authors do not own books, readers do”

— John Green

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

— Samuel Johnson

“I am more well known for quotes than books.”

— Steven Magee

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors

— Benjamin Franklin

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

— Vicesimus Knox

“A person should be wise enough to come up with their own quotes”

— John Maher

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax…

— George Eliot

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good…

— Winston Churchill

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself,…

— Henry Watson Fowler

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are…

— Francesco Petrarca