Book Quote by John Steinbeck

“I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that…

— Sarah J. Maas

“If you don’t like a book, lay it aside. It was not written for you.”

— Anonymous

“There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.”

— Pliny

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”

— Chris Geiger

“Although he, like all people, secretely enjoyed the smell of his own farts, the smell of his shit was somethig else. It was so…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the writing.”

— Anthony Powell

“If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“Of course, as everyone knows, neither my five books nor any five hundred books are sufficient to silence and pertinacity. It is the glory…

— Augustine of Hippo

“When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy…

— Kingsley Amis

“It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.”

— Jason Fagone

“But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it…

— Gabrielle Zevin