Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Kenneth McLeish

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna

“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and ideas and…

— Aldous Huxley

“You have just confirmed to me that one of the most fortunate purposes of literature is to bring like-minded people together and get them…

— Laurence Cossé

“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like…

— George Etherege

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.”

— Anne R. Allen