Book Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“He did not torture himself with vain attempts to hold his brain as a mirror to his heart, that he might read his heart…

— George MacDonald

“The intellectual mind judges a book after having read it. A fool’s mind judges a book by its title.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

— Alfred Adler

A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

— Louis Auchincloss

“Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.”

— Aneta Cruz

“[T]he narrative intelligences of our books should leave us feeling a bit pressed intellectually, a bit outmatched, amazed ultimately by the talent of the…

— Bryan Basamanowicz

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering…

— Janet Burroway

The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.

— Annie Dillard

“A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the…

— Ogwo David Emenike

“Wisemen's minds and hearts live together under the same roof of wisdom”

— Munia Khan

“It takes more than genius to keep me reading a book.”

— Anonymous

“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.”

— John P. Marquand