Book Quote by Mark Twain

“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

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure, in time, until I…

— Gene Wolfe

“He began to explicate a detailed and heretofore unformulated hypothesis about the human mind’s psychological readiness to read a given book at a given…

— Phillip Lewis

“Occasionally, noticing an exact identity of thought between what I felt but could not articulate and the clearly expressed idea of a writer, I…

— Gopi Krishna

“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the power of…

— Will Durant

“...a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might…

— Alain de Botton

“For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings . . . it's like…

— Michael Ponsor

“A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of…

— Marcel Proust

“A mysterious object, a good book. It did that to you; made it almost painful turning the last page. Then it clung in your…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

“There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. The least slackening of vigilance and the…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi