Academic Quote by Sergey Brin

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

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

History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe one of…

— Michel Faber

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Books, like men their authors, have no more than one wayofcoming intothe world, but there areten thousand to go out of it, and return…

— Jonathan Swift

People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

— Virginia Woolf

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…

— E M Forster

“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including…

— Evelyn Waugh

“A world without books is a black hole”

— MBarreto Condado

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many,…

— Seth Grahame-Smith