Book Quote by Virginia Woolf

Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him…

— Virginia Woolf

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.

— Victor Hugo

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

— Fanny Fern

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past,…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

In the end all books are written for your friends.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

— Willie Morris

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

— Dawn Addams

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

— Tom Robbins

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

— J. Oswald Sanders

A man is known by the books he reads.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through…

— Anonymous

A man will be known by his books.

— William Martin