Book Quote by Luis Walter Alvarez

“Books are used to disprove thoughts, but to nourish them.”

— Reader With a Cause

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“John had said McKindless would be revealed through his library, but John was a bookseller; he formed his opinion of everyone through their books.”

— Louise Welsh

“a book is the pinnacle of arrogance for it demands to be heard, but it cannot listen. It desires to communicate, yet it refuses…

— Alec Hutson

A man who is ignorant of books is one with whom no discussion is possible.

— Vikrant Parsai

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead…

— Catherynne M. Valente

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the…

— George Orwell

“Sometimes there is no chemistry between writer and reader, so - give up. Not all books are meant to be read.”

— My mother

“Umit did not allow the books to read him. Nor did he allow the books to dictate his thoughts.”

— Raj Doctor

“He reached out to stroke the spines of the books, as if they might whisper their secrets to him if he touched them. But…

— Christoph Marzi

“Done to death by books? There were worse ways to go, even if you weren't a bibliophile.”

— Martin Edwards

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any…

— Samuel Johnson