Books Quote by Poggio Bracciolini Stephen Greenblatt

“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the…

— Voltaire

“Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.”

— Nick Hornby

“As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures…

— Aldous Huxley

“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is…

— Atwood H. Townsend

“We profit little by books we do not enjoy.”

— John Lubbock

“—I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary. —I think we really like…

— William Gaddis

“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send them out…

— Julian Darius

“Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...”

— morgan

“What's the point of a book you don't enjoy?”

— Jessica Spotswood

“A books should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.”

— Samuel Johnson

“You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.”

— Lara Biyuts

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

— Victor Hugo