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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

» Martin Luther (1483-1546) German priest and scholar

I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G

» Matt Groening (1954-?) American Cartoonist

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

» Montaigne (1533-1592) French statesman, philosopher and essayist

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

» Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) French poet and critic

Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

» Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980) Canadian communications theorist and educator

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

» Milan Kundera (1929-?) Czech writer

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

» Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American protestant preacher and author

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

» Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Irish writer, poet, and physician [Novel:'The Vicar of Wakefield']

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

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