Quotes about books

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Thomas Carlyle

If a book about failures doesn’t sell, is it a success?

Jerry Seinfeld

I can’t read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Alfred Hitchcock

I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.

Ernest Hemingway

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I’ve gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Robert Schuller

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver’s Travels among them.

George Orwell

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Mark Twain

These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.

Mike Tyson