Books Quote by T. S. Eliot

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a burden to…

— Jeremy Collier

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

— Philip James Bailey

One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself…

— Stefan Zweig

“Every lover of books has authors whom he reads over and over again, whom he cares for as persons and not as sources of…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in…

— George Fillmore Swain

“We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please... We want books that cost their authors…

— Laurence Cossé

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere…

— John Milton

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

— Leo Rosten

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long,…

— George Orwell

a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants…

— Virginia Woolf

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting…

— Miguel Serrano