Admirable Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must…

— Mary Virginia Provines

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed…

— Carolyn Wells

“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books give us…

— Harry Mazer

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it…

— Umberto Eco

“The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and force us…

— Geoffrey Reiter

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

— Doris Lessing

“Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It…

— Paul De Man

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as…

— William Godwin

There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

— Glenway Wescott

“A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books…

— Herman Melville