Books Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters…

— Shantideva

“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”

— George Gissing

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score of other…

— Maurice Francis Egan

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.”

— John Steinbeck

“For the truth is, there are times when we are too weary to remain attentive and thankful under the improving eye, kindly but severe,…

— H.M. Tomlinson

“I think you and I ought to publish our letters (they'd be a jolly good book by the way) under the title of lamentations,…

— C.S. Lewis

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there are, I…

— Virginia Woolf

“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a…

— Victor Hugo

“There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes ; Sully's…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson