Books Quote by P.G. Wodehouse

“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.”

— Anonymous

“I’m sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for…

— Michael Cunningham

“Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“I have tried so to write the first chapter that those who can't bear such a story will see at once what they are…

— C.S. Lewis

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand

“You are quick to catch the author's intentions and nothing escapes you”

— Italo Calvino

“Sometimes even your favourite authors can let you down. However don't let them down by holding this against them.”

— Dave Gibson

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed…

— Annie Dillard

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels…

— Garret Holms

“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.”

— Neil Gaiman

“One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an…

— Virginia Woolf