quote: books

  • This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. – Dorothy Parker

  • Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?” – Joseph H. Jackson

  • Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

  • There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. – Oscar Wilde

  • The world must be all fucked up, when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  • Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. – Mark Twain

  • A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

  • Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Unknown

  • In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler

  • The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still…

  • When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

  • The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. – Edward M. Forster