Books Quote by Marcel Bénabou

“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages…

— Kate Morton

“Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it a green…

— Shivam Chaudhary

“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Books don’t take time away from us,” she said. “They give it back. In this age of abstraction, of multitasking, of speed for speed’s…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

— E.M. Forster

“This is how it happens: you spend your life reading, reading, and reading more, waiting, waiting, and waiting for something to be incredible. Each…

— Chris Pavone

“The secret to an author’s journey is to take it one page at a time…”

— Jo-Ann M. Rodriguez

“He was looking for a brightness, a resolve, a triumph over tomorrow that hardly seemed to be there. Perhaps he had expected their faces…

— Ray Bradbury

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the…

— Joshua Ferris