All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places […]
Books Quotes
Steal not this book, my honest friend, For fear the gallows should be your end, And when you die the Lord will say, And where’s the book you stole away?
Books are like foreign countries or parts of your own land that you have never visited. You do not have to travel over them mile by mile to get a reasonably adequate idea of what they are like. The account of one honest traveler saves you that, especially if he knows you and has seen […]
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book – I’ll waste no time reading it.
My book will be praised by highbrows and will be read by lowbrows. There is no writing in it that anybody with a high-school education cannot read
Tell him that some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man. (He hated the public spotlight, he said this in denying a journalist’s request to interview him)
I have read your book and much like it.
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarity that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
