Book Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a…

— Anonymous

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one…

— Stephen King

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

— Nicholas G. Carr

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you…

— Italo Calvino

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most…

— Sara Sheridan

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

— William Godwin

“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending…

— Sara Sheridan

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

— Annie Dillard

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about…

— Nicholas G. Carr