He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
Books Quotes
You write a book like that that you’re fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it’s like pissing in your father’s beer.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.
It’s enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it’s good enough, […]
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Half of your book is to an index grown; You give your book contents, your reader none.
Another damned, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr Gibbon?
A bad book is as much labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River […]
