Book Quotes

eople with large book collections are almost always diligent learners.

Marie Kondo

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Saul Bellow

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monst

Winston Churchill

I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

Will Ferrell

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

Cory Doctorow

Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.

Jim Gaffigan