Book Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

— Laozi

“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.”

— Alain de Botton

A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly,…

— Nelson Algren

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no…

— Mark Twain

“all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. Now the way that the…

— Mark Twain

“A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

— Wilbur Smith

“It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry in your…

— Terry Goodkind

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

— Jason Epstein

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.

— Thomas Carlyle

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

— Lynda Barry

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has…

— Eugene Field