I would rather take a fifty-mile hike than crawl through a book. I prefer to skip the long ones and get a synopsis from the story department.
Books Quotes
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them – you can’t help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there’s […]
We do not want holy books, but true ones; not sacred writings, but sensible writings.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Don’t explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
The day of the Bible is passed. Books have taken its place.
We love to buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.
My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water.
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
