Authorship Quote by Martial

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, and effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Barrow

“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.”

— Ninni Holmqvist

“For him books are not like men, who impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard to be…

— Stefan Zweig

He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Isaac Barrow

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that…

— Horace

“Whatever reader desires to have a thorough comprehension of an author's thoughts cannot take a better method than by putting himself into the circumstances…

— Jonathan Swift

“Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn’t a book but its…

— Fernando Pessoa

“He acquired more and more books, books being an acknowledged extravagance he could seldom curb. (With one London bookseller he had placed a standing…

— David McCullough

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading,…

— Anonymous

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is…

— Alfred Kazin

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to…

— Aldous Huxley