Book Quote by Thomas Gray

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

— J. G. Ballard

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself…

— Voltaire

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

— Anonymous

Books are as important to a fool as a mirror to a blind..

— Kshitij Roshan

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

— Anne Sexton

“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time — such as…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read…

— Swami Vivekananda

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

— Joseph Addison

“None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used…

— John Russell

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

— Mark Vonnegut