Books Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short stories under…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“Novels arise out of the shortcoings of history.”

— Novalis

“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

— Jane Austen

“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you…

— Donald McCaig

“The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short…

— James A. Newman

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

— Jane Austen

“A novel, like poetry, should have for its hero a person superior to the common herd of men.”

— Lady Shelley

“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by…

— Virginia Woolf