Books Quote by Walter Bagehot

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

— Walter Bagehot

The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has…

— Walter Bagehot

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

— Guy Debord

“all good books are bad!”

— Elinor Ostrom

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

— Doris Lessing

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.”

— Amit Kalantri

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many…

— Mortimer J. Adler

“All good books are about everything, abbreviated.”

— Andrew Smith

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

— George Plimpton

'In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.”

— Courtney Milan