Book Quotes

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I’m kinda sentimental about the jewels.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.

I did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain.

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.