Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once…

— Samuel Johnson

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

— Ben Jonson

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

— Jean Rostand

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of…

— William Hazlitt

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

— Anonymous

“Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur…

— Louis L'Amour

“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we take notes…

— Pierre Bayard

Memory is never complete. There are always parts of it that time has amputated. Writing is a way of retrieving them, of bringing the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except…

— Carl Sagan

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

— Alice Hoffman

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

— Anne Tyler

I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could…

— Ramona Koval