Books Quotes

"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand." "To produce a mighty book you must choose a mighty theme " "We read to know we are not alone." "There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." "Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby." "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." "One of the malfunctions of literary criticism is that it tends to create clothing patterns and then cut these patterns up to create garments. But that’s destroyed the books." "Books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told." "To read is to let someone else work for you, suffer for you, and think for you." "The good of a book lies in its being read." "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all" "Reading can take you places you have never been" "The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment." "There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture." "The magic is only in what books say." "Without libraries what have we?" "It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have." "Books are special, books are my friends. They are always there for me." "You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps"