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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

» Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

» Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author ['Brave New World']

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

» Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) American educator

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

» Anatole France (1844-1924) French Writer[Born François-Anatole Thibault]

An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.

» Anonymous (-)

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

» Anonymous (-)

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

» Anonymous (-)

Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

» Anonymous (-)

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

» Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) English novelist

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

» Arthur Miller (1915-2005) American Dramatist

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

» Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treas

» Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers - such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it i

» Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-?) Russian novelist, dramatist and historian

In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

» André Maurois (1885-1967) French writer

In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through.

» Anonymous (-)

Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

» Anonymous (-)

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

» Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

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