Books Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

— Thomas Gray

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story…

— Umberto Eco

I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel,…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.…

— Anthony Powell

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

— Rick Moody

“That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to know everything…

— Julian Barnes

“Some people said there was a secret society trained precisely for that purpose, toiling away generation after generation, poring over the book and copying…

— Traci Chee

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon…

— Marguerite Yourcenar