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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

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

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

Books and marriage go ill together.

Author: Moliere (1622 - 1673) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 107 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let...

Author: Harry S. Truman (1884 - 1972) | Theme: Books | Clicks: 136 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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