Arthur Quote by Nat Hentoff

There are books like Darkness at Noon, which from the prose standpoint I don't think is a perfect book. It has flaws. But for…

— David Bezmozgis

When I first started out writing the 'Darkness' books, there was, at least in my mind, a certain sort of rulebook we had to…

— Frank Peretti

“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Some books are like an hors d'oeuvre - light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going to come…

— Ann Widdecombe

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in…

— Martin Luther

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

— Isaac Asimov

If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.

— Scott Spencer

“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering through pages…

— Kate Morton

I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher

— Mahatma Gandhi

I like learning things from books. Some of my favourites are George MacDonald Fraser's 'Flashman' novels; he researched them meticulously.

— Richard Bacon

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

— James Redfield

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

— Arthur Schopenhauer