Books Quotes

I have read your book and much like it.

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarity that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

This book fills a much-needed gap. (in a review)

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

If a book is true to what men and women know of one another’s souls it will be true enough, and it will be great and beautiful.

He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

You write a book like that that you’re fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it’s like pissing in your father’s beer.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.