Books Quote by Marcel Proust

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…”

— Vincent Starrett

“Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…”

— Chris Geiger

“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist except when…

— Italo Calvino

“You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance…

— William Goldman

“Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book…

— Italo Calvino

“No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.”

— John Connolly

“A book--the book that was, for some reason, THE book--can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.”

— Anna Quindlen

“And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe.”

— Gregory Maguire

“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.”

— Ella Berthoud