Book Quote by Walter Benjamin

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books…

— Walter Benjamin

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their…

— Laurence Sterne

“Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help.”

— Mohsin Hamid

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will…

— Barry Eisler

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their…

— William Ellery Channing

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

— George Henry Lewes

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

— Guy Kawasaki

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

— Ruth Ozeki