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An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I don't exist not so much throuth the history of life and career, but and especially throughj my books.

Author: Nicolae Breban (1934) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 6.00 | Fav

Far Away: Who would've had so much darkness To be, to have been said? Who sees how death comes In my spirit the grim reaper? Night falls from somewhere, far away, Moving the ray from darkness into...

Author: Aura Christi (1967) | Theme: Poetry | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Read in order to live.

Author: Helen Fielding (1958) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.50 | Fav

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought,...

Author: Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 8.63 | Fav

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

Author: Jonathan Kellerman (1949) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Author: P. L. Travers (1899 - 1996) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.75 | Fav

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Author: Rupert Brooke (1887 - 1915) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Author: Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

Author: Wislawa Szymborska (1923) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

There is no difference between making bread and printing books.

Author: Costache Olareanu (1929 - 2000) | Theme: Literature | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

The book is life of our time.

Author: Vissarion Belinsky (1811 - 1848) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

Life is too short to read bad books.

Author: Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 0 | Rank: 9.50 | Fav

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Author: Jim Bishop (1907 - 1987) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 37 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

It is for this child in me, and in all of us, that I tell my stories, and that my books are for any child between 80 and 8 years.

Author: Michael Ende (1929 - 1995) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 15 | Rank: 0 | Fav

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 72 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa (1936) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 288 | Rank: 8.00 | Fav

I write books to find out about things.

Author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 154 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I pray you all, gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am alive, that God send me good deliverance, and...

Author: Sir Thomas Malory (1405 - 1471) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 174 | Rank: 10.00 | Fav

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 157 | Rank: 6.67 | Fav
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