Books Quote by Marcel Proust

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

— Samuel Johnson

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

— Mark Twain

Man is what he reads.

— Joseph Brodsky

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

— Samuel Johnson

A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.

— Marianne Moore

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing…

— Owen Barfield

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature…

— Samuel Johnson

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

— Frank Moore Colby

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr