Book Quote by William Safire

“Books reflect interests; interests inform personality and personality decides a course of action.”

— Andrew Caldecott

“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries heft, and…

— Steven L. Carter

“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is…

— Umberto Eco

“The first essential in any book is that it have something significant to say --a book that leaves the reader with bigger ideas than…

— Rebecca Caudill

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.”

— Steffan Piper

“The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places… Always bear in mind that your own resolution to…

— Anonymous

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions,”

— Noam Chomsky

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

— James Redfield

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.”

— James F. Amos