Books Quote by Thomas Mann

When Thomas Mann arrived in California from Germany, they asked him about German literature. And he said, 'German literature is where I am.' It's…

— Joseph Brodsky

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very little. But…

— John Green

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

— Colum McCann

“Reading means borrowing. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorisms

“...the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.”

— René Descartes

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

— Alexander Smith

“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond…

— Ben Jacobs

“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a scholar obsessed.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Nine years ago, my sister handed me a paperback she had picked up in an airport shop on her way to India. It was…

— Rachel Falconer

“The titles at the head of each book were prefixed, not by the authors, but by the early transcribers.”

— Robert Taylor

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now…

— Edward Abbey