Books Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted…

— Anonymous

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire…

— Alan Glasser

“Yet he had expended much of an inquisitive nature upon random reading. By the sheer force of indiscriminate voracity, he had gleaned a smattering…

— Isaac Asimov

“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It was possible,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic.…

— Don DeLillo

“This gave him another opportunity to use one of those words that hung before him, shining and alluring. Far away in the distance there…

— Tarjei Vesaas

“He had a quick comprehension and considerable force of character; but, being without the power to combine them, the comprehension became engaged with trivialities…

— Thomas Hardy

“...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his brains dried up to such a…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe