Book Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn,…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“Stability itself is nothing but a more languid motion.”

— Stephen Greenblatt

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

— Michel de Montaigne

The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

— Joshua Foer

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that.…

— Haruki Murakami

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a…

— Karen Joy Fowler

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was…

— Kwame Nkrumah

All books are judged by their covers until they are read.

— Maryrose Wood