Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a…

— Henning Mankell

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

— John Cheever

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

— George Bernard Shaw

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.…

— John Cheever

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written,…

— Norton Juster

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a…

— Walter Savage Landor

For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.

— Anonymous

Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements…

— Mark Twain

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Man's life is brief and transitory, Literature endures forever”

— Rory Stewart

“...as long as we have the choice to read what we want, I suspect Twain and Homer and the rest will always be with…

— Leif Enger

My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it…

— Jeffrey R. Holland