Books Quote by Joseph Heller

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Reading literature makes us better people.”

— Annie Murphy Paul

“We studied men like him at school – protected gentlemen, rich gentlemen, white gentlemen, who picked up pens and wrote the world for the…

— Jessie Burton

“Quality literature, such as the Great Books, the Harvard Classics,”

— Stephen R. Covey

“There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But”

— Michael Robotham

“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.”

— Russell Lynes

“He wondered what book he might be reading when he finally breathed his last, and determined to grab a good one as soon as…

— Andrew Peterson

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”

— René Descartes

“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

— C.S. Lewis

“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita