Books, books and more books. So many definitions, concepts, ways of understanding or interpreting them. What do they really mean, what do they bring us, take us out or take away from us, why they are and are. All the authors who write them, of any time and nationality, have their opinion. This is a (minimal) selection of 30 phrases chosen over them.
30 phrases about books
- When they publish something to you, prepare for the shock of not finding it in any bookstore. Bill adler
- A book is not written once and for all. When it is truly a great book, men's history adds its own passion. louis aragon
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are immediately remembered. Wystan Hugh Auden
- The book has to go out and look for the reader. Francis Ayala
- Every book is also the sum of the misunderstandings to which it gives rise. george bataille
- A book that does not deserve to be read twice should not be read in its entirety. Federico Beltran
- The memory left by a book is sometimes more important than the book itself. Adolfo Bioy Casares
- A book is one thing among things, a volume lost among the volumes that populate the indifferent universe; until he finds his reader, the man destined for his symbols. Jorge Luis Borges
- If you can't say what you have to say in twenty minutes, better step back and write a book about it. Lord Brabazon
- Possession of a book becomes the substitute for reading it. Anthony Burgess
- If you read books, you end up wanting to write literature. Quentin crisp
- To write a good book, I do not consider it essential to know Paris or to have read Don Quixote. Cervantes, when he wrote it, had not yet read it. Miguel Delibes placeholder image
- The world is full of precious books that nobody reads. Umberto Eco
- People in love with a book are like the lovers of their wife: they do not rest until they have presented it to their friends for them to admire. Thus they become heavy and often lose him / her. Clifton fadiman
- I find it very wrong to spend months writing a book and then more months being constantly asked what I wanted to say in it. Sir Arthur John Gielgud
- Our life is made more by the books we read than by the people we meet. Graham greene
- A gentleman should have three copies of each book: one to display, one to use, and the third to borrow. Richard Heber
- For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning in which he tries something that is beyond his reach. Ernest Hemingway
- A bad book costs as much work to write as a good one; it comes out with the same sincerity from the author's soul. Aldous huxley
- Tell me the book you read and I will tell you who you stole it from. Ilya Ilf
- My books are the literary equivalent of a Big Mac with a large helping of French fries. Stephen King
- Never judge a cover by its book. Fran lebowitz
- As soon as it is finished, the book turns into a foreign body, a dead being unable to fix my attention, let alone my interest. Claude Levi Strauss
- The higher the quality of the book the further ahead of events. Vladimir Mayakovsky
- I want the books to speak for themselves. Do you know how to read? Well, tell me what my books mean. Surprise me Bernard malamud
- Publishing a book is talking at the table in the presence of the servants. Henri montherlant
- When you sell someone a book, you don't sell them a pound of paper, ink, and glue, without offering them a new life. Christopher morley
- Structure and style are the only things a book needs; great ideas are scrap. Vladimir Nabokov
- Books are small grains of sand that form over time. Clara Isabel Simo
- A great book should leave you with a lot of experiences, and a bit tired in the end. You live several lives reading it. william styron
Source: A century of dating.