Books Quote by Ursula K. Le Guina

“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out…

— Jonathan Swift

“You can write books, but there’s only ever one book that’s really you.”

— Joan G. Robinson

“Already there are too many books in the world. There are more every day. One man cannot hope to read them all.”

— Hilary Mantel

“I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more…

— Richard Ford

“There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”

— Donald Barthelme

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler

“Of course, as everyone knows, neither my five books nor any five hundred books are sufficient to silence and pertinacity. It is the glory…

— Augustine of Hippo

“Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“BIG books are better.  There, I said it and it's true . ”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.”

— John Wyndham